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When Congress passed the Endangered Species Act(ESA) in December of 1973, an article stated that some people think that this Act wasn't worth the time and money, others think that they need to put more time and money into the species and their habitats.
The cost to help reduce the probability of an animal’s endangerment and extinction is very high. The average cost is around $5 billion just to reduce the threat of endangerment but also an additional cost of around $76 billion to preserve the already protected wildlife species. Some scientists have said that they are worried that they wouldn’t be getting the funding for right amount of protection need for these endangered species. Countries around the world got together and agreed to try and …show more content…

For example, without the ESA there would be a very slim chance that some species of birds, bears, sharks, snakes, fish and many more species that we may not even have discovered yet that would not be here today. Landowners are a huge benefit to the ESA because without the private land they have the species that live on their land that has a pond or a lake are safer than a squirrel living in a tree that may or may not be taken down by a contractor to build new living or business areas. Although the ESA has chose to fine or imprison landowners who have harmed an eagle or owl that might be in endangerment. The landowners are entitled to what they do on their private land and if they don’t honestly mean to harm these species they should not be fined or sentenced to jail or prison.The ESA also benefits from helping people get jobs. The U.S, for example, is very run low on jobs and there are many jobs for people that deal with the help of eliminating the fact of endangerment in the species. In 2006 a study by the University of Montana showed that when wolves were being protected by the ESA, the wolves returned to Yellowstone National Park and that gained around $35 billion for the YNP from tourists.
The Endangered Species Act has had its benefits and disadvantages. Some pros are that the government had made room for these large funds needed to help remove the endangered species from the “Endangered Species List”. They have successfully exceed their goals in some of the species. Some of the species that were saved by the ESA is grizzly bears, Whooping Cranes, Bald Eagles, the American Alligator and much

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