Environmental Issues

A positive thing about Endangered Species Act (ESA) can be termed as its contribution to the restoration of grizzly bears, brown pelicans, bald eagles and peregrine falcons from endangered species (Gordon, Robert E., James K. Lacy, and James R. Streeter 9). A positive correlation has been established between two variables namely the number of years a species is listed and improvement in the status. Peyton Knight (2006) has put an argument against ESA stating that ESA has been responsible for recovery of less than one percent of endangered species after being operation for, more than three decades.

There has been an argument in the essay that many success stories of ESA would have happened even without ESA .The supporting data proves the claim very well.

Every law has certain features that would be helping to solve an issue but it would not be offering the complete solution. ESA act could be termed as an example of ineffective implementation. Conflicting economic interest is a reason behind ineffective implementation (Miller, George 715).

The best possible alternative would be providing landowners with an economic viability, as they would be losing property rights under ESA (OConnell, Michael 142). Another possible alternative would be to have voluntary leasing agreements that would be time-sensitive.

The Mission statements provided in the web sites give a general idea of the aim of the organization. Interpretation of data can become more biased and unreliable due to this.

The sources has been unreliable to a certain extend as datas are not subjected to scientific review. There has been no field checking of data.

The viewpoint that ESA is essential to conserving biological diversity remains but with certain reservations. The act should be trying to answer why list of endangered species is getting larger year-by-year (Carroll, Ronald 6).