Endangered Species Recovery Plan is a program in the USA to develop protocols for protecting and enhancing
rareA rare species is an organism which is very uncommon or scarce. This designation may be applied to either a plant or animal taxon, and may be distinct from the term "endangered" or "threatened species" but not "extinct"....
and
endangered speciesAn endangered species is a population of organisms which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters. Also it could mean that due to deforestation there may be a lack of food and/or water...
populations.
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Endangered Species Recovery Plan is a program in the USA to develop protocols for protecting and enhancing
rareA rare species is an organism which is very uncommon or scarce. This designation may be applied to either a plant or animal taxon, and may be distinct from the term "endangered" or "threatened species" but not "extinct"....
and
endangered speciesAn endangered species is a population of organisms which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters. Also it could mean that due to deforestation there may be a lack of food and/or water...
populations.
The
United States Environmental Protection AgencyThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged to regulate chemicals and protect human health by safeguarding the natural environment: air, water, and land...
, under authority of the U.S. Congress via the
Endangered Species ActThe Endangered Species Act of 1973 is the most wide-ranging of the dozens of United States environmental laws passed in the 1970s...
, implemented this program beginning in the early 1970s. As of 2009, 1132 species in the U.S. have an active Recovery Plan.
1 This program is a precursor of
Biodiversity Action PlanThis article is about a conservation biology topic. For other uses of BAP, see BAP .A Biodiversity Action Plan is an internationally recognized program addressing threatened species and habitats and is designed to protect and restore biological systems. The original impetus for these plans derives...
s recognized as important to the international community in the year 1992.
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1 http://ecos.fws.gov/tess_public/TESSBoxscore