Posted
on December 28, 2014
This
is a busy time of year – and lots of people are recovering from (or
still enjoying) overeating, partying, hosting, and traveling. It's
hard to get most people to care about sea turtles and sei whales when
they have three loads of laundry to do or brand new video games to
play.
So
Endangered Species Day is not today; it's the third Friday in May.
But
today is the anniversary of the signing of the Endangered Species
Act. On this date in 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the bill
into law.
This
law was designed to protect species that were in danger of going
extinct – especially when the cause for extinction was humankind's
growth or activities. The U.S. Supreme Court later decided that the
intent was to “reverse the trend toward species extinction.”
Before
this law was passed, there were laws that protected this creature and
that other creature, and once in a while there were laws that
protected certain types of creatures (such as migrating birds). One
obvious creature to protect in the U.S. was the nation's symbol, the
bald eagle.
But
the Endangered Species Act helps to protect all the Endangered and
Threatened species listed by the Fish and Wildlife Service and the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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