Nearly 2 dozen species added to the endangered list in 2023
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The Endangered Species Act, signed in 1973 to protect plant and animal species, turned 50 this month.
Nearly two dozen species are now considered gone forever, with another almost two dozen added to the endangered species list this year.
A total of 21 species were delisted from the endangered species list this year due to extinction.
“Most of these species were already on the brink of extinction before they were protected and they went extinct decades ago, but they were just officially delisted this year,” said Tierra Curry, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity.
Ten of the removed species were birds.
“Eight of them were from Hawaii and they were lost to extinction because of introduced predators and disease and development,” she said.
