Do Habitat Conservation Plans protect endangered species?
: Do Habitat Conservation Plans protect endangered species? The number of threatened and endangered species in the United States is increasing monthly and critical habitat is constantly being destroyed. The number of newly listed threatened and endangered species greatly outweighs the number recovered from threatened extinction. Applying the HCP- Habitat Conservation Plan- of the Endangered Species Act, these animals will have hope fore the future. American Peregrine Falcon: American Peregrine Falcon By the late 1960s, research had begun to show that pesticides like DDT caused physiological changes in peregrine falcons and other species of animals that fed high on the food chain. Researchers found that high DDT concentrations caused a peregrine’s liver to change the production of an enzyme essential to maintaining levels of the female sex hormone, estrogen. Anti : Endangered Species Act 1973: Anti : Endangered Species Act 1973 The motives behind the Endangered Species Act are not for t
