Defenders Defines: Delisted
What exactly does it mean when a species is delisted from the Endangered Species Act?
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For species that are listed as threatened or endangered under the ESA, they are regularly reassessed in terms of their status and survival. With that assessment, it could be determined that a species would be downlisted from endangered to a threatened status or delisted, which means it would come off the endangered species list altogether. There are a few different reasons for why that might be determined. Unfortunately, one of those is extinction. In … Continue