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Protecting endangered species: 6 essential reads

  • Written by Jennifer Weeks, Editor, Environment and Energy, The Conversation
imageBeach closed to protect threatened bird species, Chincoteague, Virginia.brownpau/Flickr, CC BY

Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of archival stories.

The Endangered Species Act, passed in 1973, created a framework for protecting and recovering species in peril and the ecosystems on which they depend. Critics in Congress are pressing to...

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