The House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act in mid-June, which would provide $1.3 billion to assist in conserving, restoring and protecting wildlife and habitats across the country.
The bill passed on a vote of 231-190. Conservation groups applauded the bill’s passage.
“Unfortunately, House and Senate appropriators have made it clear that saving endangered species is not their top priority,” said Stephanie Kurose, a senior endangered species policy specialist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act is now our best chance to combat extinction in the United States.”
Threatened and endangered species will receive designated funding under the bill, which the center says is a step up from “the status quo, which allocates less than $1,000 per year to hundreds of endangered species.”
