Recovery Plan is a program in the USA to develop protocols for protecting and enhancing rare and endangered species populations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under authority of the U.S. Congress via the Endangered Species Act, implemented this program beginning in the early 1970s. By the year 2005 thousands of species in the U.S. have had an approved Recovery Plan prepared. This program is a precursor of Biodiversity Action Plans recognized as important to the international community in the year 1992. Rare species is an organism which is very uncommon or scarce. ... The endangered Sea Otter An endangered species is a population of organisms (usually a taxonomic species), which because it is either (a) few in number or (b) threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters, it is at risk of becoming extinct. ... EPA redirects here. ... The Endangered Species Act (, et seq. ... Diademed Sifaka, an endangered primate of Madagascar Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) is a an internationally recognized programme addressing threatened species or habitats, which is designed to protect and restore biological systems. ...
Rainforests are among the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth Biodiversity or biological diversity is the diversity of life. ... The Holocene extinction event is a name customarily given to the widespread, ongoing mass extinction of species during the modern Holocene epoch. ...
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IUCN Summary Statistics for Globally Threatened Species
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