摘要：Behind every rebounding endangered species—like the grizzly bear, gray wolf and gray whale—lies a plan that takes recovery from hope to reality.“Unfortunately given the chronic failure of Congress to provide enough funding for implementation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and an increasing number of species that need protection, nearly a quarter of ESA-listed species lack a recovery plan—even though it is essential to keeping an animal from going extinct,” says Jacob Malcom, director of Defenders’ Center for Conservation Innovation (CCI) and lead author of an analysis published in Conservation Letters, a journal of the Society for Conservation Biology. “Those species that have a recovery plan are too-often dependent on one more than two decades old.
