5 decades later: What of the ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT of 1973?
From An Age of Extinction, Georg Steller’s sea lion populations have declined by more than 80% because of industrial fishing activities. Earthjustice legal efforts helped win a court verdict that keeps ESA protections for the species. Sam Edmondson relates this voyage back from an age of extinction Six long weeks in the summer of 1741 have passed without sight of land. Signs, yes—but Georg Steller, who reads seabirds and seaweed like a map. They are seamen, though their own maps h...
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