Article: SPECIES OFF ENDANGERED LIST - FROM EXTINCTION BABBITT EMBARRASSED BY AGENCY'S BLUNDER.(News/National/International)

Byline: John Brinkley Scripps Howard News Service

WASHINGTON -- Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt announced in May that 29 endangered species had recovered so well they could come off the endangered species list - proof, he said, ``the Endangered Species Act works.''

It turns out five of those species hadn't recovered. Rather, they had become extinct.

A conservative group that opposes mainstream environmentalism reported Babbitt's choreographed announcement in Gill, Mass., was based on ``a big public affairs blunder.''

The Mariana mallard, the Guam broad bill and three subspecies of the Oahu tree snail hadn't really ``made it,'' as ...

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