20h 1min, dec 28, 1973 y - Galvin says that the greatest success of the ESA—signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973—is that "no species has gone extinct after being listed." It's a fraction of the hundreds of species whose populations have increased because of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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20h 1min, dec 28, 1973 y
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