Endangered Species Act of 1973
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Nov 2, 2026
Steven RinellaHOST
Right.
Steven RinellaHOST
The Endangered Species Act.
Steven RinellaHOST
Yep.
Steven RinellaHOST
72.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
Once those permits are approved, the bill would make it almost impossible to revoke them, even if harms of a project are discovered after the permit is issued.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
The bill would undermine critical parts of the National Historic Preservation Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, and several other cornerstone pieces of legislation that protect habitat and public land.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
The Wilderness Society, many other allied groups, have come out against the bill because of these particular clauses, but there's still time to influence this one.
Ryan CallaghanHOST
and remove these damaging provisions when the bill comes to the Senate floor.
AngieHOST
And since their population has rebounded somewhat, if you will, there are considered least concerned by the IUCN.
AngieHOST
However, in the U S they're still protected under the endangered species act because we took those numbers down so low, but there's really only like five, uh, breeding stocks of them.
AngieHOST
And they're really, they're secluded into a few, five different areas.
AngieHOST
So within the five different areas, they're most, they're either critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable.
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ChrisHOST
I mean, right now, estimates around 20,000 left in the world.
ChrisHOST
And then those certain pockets you talked about, some are considered endangered, especially the one around Greenland.
ChrisHOST
So that's why the U.S. still recognizes them as an endangered species protected by the Endangered Species Act.
ChrisHOST
The right whale.
Carla Chung MattixGUEST
And like a large corporation, there are so many different moving pieces that require legal review and come under some sort of legal scrutiny.
Carla Chung MattixGUEST
There are things like... contracts and environmental reviews, construction, the development of regulations, the development of policy, and all of these things require lawyers to look over and make sure that the Park Service is complying with the law, the various laws, not just the Park Service's Organic Act, but so many other federal laws that require environmental compliance, like the National Environmental Policy Act and Administrative Procedures Act, Endangered Species Act.
Carla Chung MattixGUEST
There's just many, many different types of laws that have to be complied with.
Carla Chung MattixGUEST
So the attorneys in my office, when I worked in Washington, D.C., there were about, at any given time, about 12 attorneys that focused on National Park Service issues within the solicitor's office at the Department of the Interior.
Carla Chung-MattixGUEST
And like a large corporation, there are so many different moving pieces that require legal review and come under some sort of legal scrutiny.
Carla Chung-MattixGUEST
There are things like... contracts and environmental reviews, construction, the development of regulations, the development of policy, and all of these things require lawyers to look over and make sure that the Park Service is complying with the law, the various laws, not just the Park Service's Organic Act, but so many other federal laws that require environmental compliance, like the National Environmental Policy Act and Administrative Procedures Act, Endangered Species Act.
Carla Chung-MattixGUEST
There's just many, many different types of laws that have to be complied with.
Carla Chung-MattixGUEST
So the attorneys in my office, when I worked in Washington, D.C., there were about, at any given time, about 12 attorneys that focused on National Park Service issues within the solicitor's office at the Department of the Interior.
Chris MullerHOST
Wolves are fully recovered in the state and need management, not protection.
Chris MullerHOST
Under the Endangered Species Act, the gray wolf is the single greatest recovery story we have in Wisconsin.
Chris MullerHOST
The state has a wolf management plan that, even with federal delisting, will struggle to set an accurate harvest quota.
Chris MullerHOST
Vague adaptive management replaces firm, numeric population goals.
Carla Chung MattixGUEST
And like a large corporation, there are so many different moving pieces that require legal review and come under some sort of legal scrutiny.
Carla Chung MattixGUEST
There are things like... contracts and environmental reviews, construction, the development of regulations, the development of policy, and all of these things require lawyers to look over and make sure that the Park Service is complying with the law, the various laws, not just the Park Service's Organic Act, but so many other federal laws that require environmental compliance, like the National Environmental Policy Act and Administrative Procedures Act, Endangered Species Act.
Carla Chung MattixGUEST
There's just many, many different types of laws that have to be complied with.
Carla Chung MattixGUEST
So the attorneys in my office, when I worked in Washington, D.C., there were about, at any given time, about 12 attorneys that focused on National Park Service issues within the solicitor's office at the Department of the Interior.
speaker_3VOICE_ACTOR
Uh, accomplishments? Yes, Your Honor.
Alex GendlerNARRATOR
Did you know it was President Nixon who proposed the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and signed the National Environmental Policy Act into law? Not to mention the Endangered Species Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Expansion of the Clean Air Act.
Alex GendlerNARRATOR
Sounds pretty progressive of him.
Alex GendlerNARRATOR
Progressive? Hardly.
speaker_0HOST
Conservation efforts for bears have had significant successes in recent decades, though many species remain threatened by habitat loss, poaching and climate change.
speaker_0HOST
The grizzly bear was listed as a threatened species under the US Endangered Species Act in 1975, after its population in the lower 48 states had declined to roughly 700 to 800 animals.
speaker_0HOST
Since then, grizzly populations in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem and the northern continental divide ecosystem have recovered substantially, with current estimates in the lower 48 exceeding 2,000.
speaker_0HOST
The giant panda, once considered critically endangered, was reclassified to vulnerable in 2016 after decades of conservation work in China that included habitat protection, captive breeding and anti-poaching enforcement.
Corinna BellizziHOST
Seven allies, seven people who spent their lives protecting the vulnerable, the land, the animals, the workers, the communities living in the shadows and smokestacks, and they're gone.
Corinna BellizziHOST
And meanwhile, the people dismantling the Endangered Species Act are still here.
Corinna BellizziHOST
The people opening the Arctic Refuge to drilling are still here.
Corinna BellizziHOST
The people gutting FEMA as the fires and floods get worse are still here.
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