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Endangered Species Preservation Act
The Endangered Species Preservation Act is passed, allowing the listing of native U.S. animal species as endangered and for limited protections. -
The first List of Endangered Species
U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall announces the first list of endangered species including 77 mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish deemed threatened with extinction. -
Endangered Species Act of 1969
An expansion of the Endangered Species Preservation Act, prohibiting importation of protected species from foreign countries. -
CITES Treaty
80 nations sign the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Treaty -
Endangered Species Act
President Nixon signs the Endangered Species act into law -
Extinction
The Tecopa pupfish is the first listed species to go extinct. -
Recovery
The brown pelican is the first species to be delisted due to recovery -
Leopard Critically Endangered
The Amur leopard is listed as critically endangered, with only 20 left in the wild. -
Eagles Recovered
Bald eagles are removed from the Endangered Species list because of recovery -
CESCF Funding
The Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund receives $7.5 million in grant funding. -
Listings
The FWS has listed over 2,000 species worldwide as endangered or threatened, -
Wolves Relisted
Federal judges decide to put the Great Lake wolf population back on the endangered species list, banning wolf hunting in that area -
House Interior Appropriations Bill; Mexican Gray Wolf
The Senate introduces a bill that blocks federal funding for the endangered Mexican gray wolf under the ESA and limits recovery. -
Senate Hearing
The senate held a hearing to "modernize the Endangered Species Act” with much criticism of the law's "encroaching on states rights. -
Budget Cuts
Trumps budget proposal cuts funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by 30 percent
