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The Endangered Species Act and What We Do
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The Fish and Wildlife Service, in the Department of the Interior, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, in the Department of Commerce, share responsibility for administration of the Endangered Species Act. Look below to learn more about what the Fish and Wildlife Service does to carry out this responsibility.
The Endangered Species Act ...
- Endangered Species Act — get the complete text of the Act in html or as a PDF file
- ESA Basics, a brief summary of the Endangered Species Act (in PDF)
- History of the ESA and its implementation (updated in 1996)
- Who administers
the ESA
- Policies, Secretarial Orders and regulations that we use to guide our implementation of the Endangered Species Act.
- For viewing or downloading announcements of new policies, regulations, and decisions we posted in the Federal Register, please see our Federal Register page.
- Endangered Species Glossary (PDF)
... and What We Do
- Overview of Endangered Species Program from November/December 1999 issue of the Endangered Species Bulletin
- American Indian Tribal Rights & the ESA
- Habitat Conservation Planning (HCPs) with landowners to integrate development activities with endangered species conservation.
- International Agreements to protect species that migrate or range across North America and to regulate trade in endangered species.
- Listing Program to place species on the list of threatened and endangered species.
- Publications and fact sheets that explain the variety of tools we use to help species on the road to recovery.
- Recovery & Delisting, our activities to implement the goal of the Endangered Species Act: recover listed species to levels where protection under the Act is no longer necessary.
- Recovery Plans to detail the specific tasks needed to recover listed species.
- Section 7 Consultation & Handbook. Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act directs all Federal agencies to use their existing authorities to conserve threatened and endangered species and, in consultation with the Service, to ensure that their actions do not jeopardize listed species or destroy or adversely modify critical habitat.
- Threatened and Endangered Wildlife and Plants. Our site on species, with links to regulatory profiles and sites for learning more about a species. It also includes lists of species sorted by species group, country, state, FWS region, country; proposed and candidate species; species which have been delisted; species with critical habitat; species with recovery plans, and maps.
- Work with Landowners to help them conserve endangered species on their lands, including providing financial grants and other assistance.
- Kids Corner to help students and teachers find information on endangered and threatened species geared for them.
- Work with Partners, such as State agencies and other organizations, to protect and conserve endangered and threatened species, including providing financial grants and other assistance.
- Our general
statistics page answers questions including how many species are
listed, how many candidate species are there, how many habitat conservation
plans are there, etc.
For information on activities and programs in your area, please see our regional web pages or contact our regional offices around the United States.
Still got a question about where to find some information? Please check out our questions page.
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