When was the endangered species act made

Jump to navigation. The Endangered Species Act "ESA" prohibits importing, exporting, taking, possessing, selling, and transporting endangered and threatened species with certain exceptions. ESA also provides for the designation of critical habitat and prohibits the destruction of that habitat.

ESA provisions are enforced through the use of citizen suits, imprisonment, fines, and forfeiture. Three different departments of the federal government administer ESA: the Department of Interior endangered animals generally , the Department of Commerce marine mammals , and the Department of Agriculture plants.

ESA facilitates species recovery in several ways. The federal government's fiscal year begins October 1 and ends September 30 each year for example, October 1, , to September 30, , is called "fiscal year ".

On September 30, , the authorization of the ESA officially expired, but Congress continued funding the law's implementation in its annual appropriations spending bills.

A provision stating that a law will expire on a specific date unless it is reauthorized by Congress is known as a "sunset clause" or "sunset provision. It is unclear whether the September date was considered a sunset clause at the time. Congress exempted the U.

Department of Defense from designating critical habitats for listed species on its land so long as a natural resources management plan was in place and had been approved by the U.

Interior Department. In , a proposed change to the Endangered Species Act was introduced in the U. House by then-Rep. Richard W. Pombo R. The bill—entitled the "Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of "—included a sunset clause stating, "All provisions of this Act shall cease to have any force and effect on October 1, The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for the terms Endangered Species Act. These results are automatically generated from Google.

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Legislative history. House vote :. It has only been in recent years that efforts have been undertaken to list and protect those species of animals whose continued existence is in jeopardy.

Starting with our national symbol, the bald eagle, we have expanded our concern over the extinction of these animals to include the present list of over The Departments of Interior, Agriculture, and Defense were to seek to protect listed species, and, insofar as consistent with their primary purposes, preserve the habitats of such species. The Act also authorized the Service to acquire land as habitat for endangered species. In , Congress amended the Act to provide additional protection to species in danger of "worldwide extinction" by prohibiting their importation and subsequent sale in the United States.

This Act called for an international meeting to adopt a convention to conserve endangered species. A conference in Washington, D.