On the brink: The Endangered Species Act

Around the world, plant and animal species are going extinct at a rate faster than any time in human history. The Endangered Species Act, signed into law 46 years ago, has succeeded in preventing hundreds of species on the list from going extinct, and has recovered 54 species. But new regulatory changes to the Act are being finalized by the Trump administration, which may weaken its ability to protect wildlife and habitat, and – say wildlife advocates – speed extinctions. Conor Knighton reports.

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[dennismorris]

Nothing could be more important from a local, national and global perspective.

[shellycapes]

So sad. This animals deserve their lives than some humans

[bloodraine]

Right now my science teacher is making us debate on whether or not the ESA was worth it. She put me on the against side. I love animals and everything I’m reading for research is just pissing me off.
Literally ALL of the cons are about human greed. As if our lives and comfort are more important then the existence of other animals.
Like destroying animal homes so businesses can’t expand! I literally want to scream.
If its not greed its ‘oh but it only saves a forth of its animals’. SO? At least it’s doing SOMETHING.
Ill do my damn research for the grade but I refuse to verbally debate this.

[RLS-bubj]

I was 38 years old when i saw my first bald eagle. They are all over my area now. They thrill me. It would be really cool for my kids to see a bunch of these little frogs!

[CaptainSkeleton]

We must fight to keep these species alive

[sandras]

It's not the cost of savings the species; it's really about cutting the potential profits for corporations!!

[indigotaylor-noguera]

Being in a crisis of climate change and biodiversity loss and being that the Pentagon is one of the biggest polluters, what we need to do is drastically cut our bloated military budget and re-allocate the funds to the recovery of threatened and endangered species, subspecies, and distinct population segments.

[electronhop]

Man is a community of 50 trillion cells, the health of the community determines the health of the man. The health of the world depends on the health of each creature upon it. We each are to be Noah, caring for our communities within communities within communities.

[mikewhite]

I mean, under this administration, WHO GIVES A ****

[CaptainSkeleton]

We need to save species from extinction

[breth]

Thank God it's time for reform ! save the animals save the taxpayers save the landowners

[garywidom]

What’s with Conor’s odd VO? It sounds like he’s trying to talk deeper and he’s doing something odd with the last word of each sentence. Just speak naturally.

[danbee]

Lord knows you need 43 THOUSANDS ACRES to pull a governor chris christie JESUS how spoiled these folks are over three percent, oh yeah and the frog has NEVER heard of your boring ace either...

[yepperdeedooda]

Oh the poor little orange froggy oh no please don't go and leave us because I cared so much about you before I even saw this.

[ceciliem]

This is just one frog hopping thing; after another! 😒

[nghtwtchmn]

I'm NOT saying that conservation is not important, but sometimes environmentalists have damaged their own credibility with their claims. Hasn't the biologist E.O. Wilson, for example, at various times given widely-varying estimates on how many species go extinct each year? Someone once replied to "Yahoo Answers" that this raises the question of: How many NEW species are created every year?