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Should the Endangered Species Act be Strengthened?

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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. . Should the Endangered Species Act be Strengthened?  by Aug 2010 paper properly!  First enacted in 1973, the Endangered Species Act is one of the most critical laws that have been put in place to protect our environment and  the organisms that live in it. It protects more than the threatened and endangered animals, in fact. When restrictions are placed on certain activities because of their potential  to affect threatened or endangered organisms, those same restrictions serve to a degree to protect the non-threatened, non-endangered organisms that live in association with them. Entire ecosystems are often  protected. Some, however, are more critical of the Endangered Species Act than they are complimentary. They contend it should either be abolished or greatly paired down. Supporters  of the Act, in turn, often argue that the Act should be strengthened. The intent of this paper is to explore both sides of this argument and to try  and reach a conclusion as to exactly what should happen to the Endangered Species Act. The effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act  is hard to argue. The US Fish and Wildlife Service Reports (2009) that twenty-two species that are at one time listed as endangered have now been taken off the  list as they are no longer endangered. Only two species that were ever put on the list prior to their actual extinction have now become extinct (US Fish and