- https://www.npr.org/2022/06/14/1105007255/us-house-passes-wildlife-conservation-spending-bill
June 14, 20228:18 PM ET
The monarch butterfly species is one of thousands which states have flagged for conservation, but have limited resources to support.
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A bill to conserve endangered species — from thered-cockaded woodpeckerto thesnuffbox mussel— was passed by the U.S. House in a 231-to-190 vote on Tuesday.
TheRecovering America’s Wildlife Actwould create an annual fund of more than $1.3 billion, given to states, territories, and tribal nations for wildlife conservation on the ground. While threatened species have been defined and protected under the Endangered Species Act since 1973, that law does not provide robust funding to proactively maintain their numbers.
The effort comes as scientists andinternational organizationssound the alarm about accelerating species decline.
“Too many people don’t realize … that roughly one-third of our wildlife is at increased risk of extinction,”…
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