Capping two years of research, our 2004 study Extinction and the Endangered Species Act identified all 108 species who went extinct or missing in the first 21 years of the Act.
Capping two years of research, our 2004 study Extinction and the Endangered Species Act identified all 108 species who went extinct or missing in the first 21 years of the Act. The number — 108 — is shockingly high, but it shows a grave failure in federal management of the Act rather than a failure of the Act itself.