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Kieran Suckling Executive Director Center for Biological Diversity

Kieran Suckling Executive Director Center for Biological Diversity Oral testimony at the House Natural Resources Committee hearing on “The Endangered Species Act: How Litigation Is Costing Jobs and Impeding True Recovery Efforts” December 6, 2011. “Evaluating success as a measure of how

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Kieran Suckling Executive Director Center for Biological Diversity

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  1. Kieran Suckling Executive Director Center for Biological Diversity Oral testimony at the House Natural Resources Committee hearing on “The Endangered Species Act: How Litigation Is Costing Jobs and Impeding True Recovery Efforts” December 6, 2011

  2. “Evaluating success as a measure of how many species are delisted is a non-informative metric.” The Performance of the Endangered Species Act Schwartz (2008) “The recovery plans we reviewed indicated that species were not likely to be recovered for up to 50 years. Therefore, simply counting the number of extinct and recovered species…provides limited insight into the overall success of the services’ recovery programs.” Time and Costs Required to Recover Species Are Largely Unknown Government Accountability Office (2006)

  3. Average Length of Listing: 21 yearsAverage Recovery Plan Projection: 42 Years

  4. Whooping Crane

  5. Hawaiian Goose

  6. Florida Panther

  7. Utah Prairie Dog

  8. Shortnose Sturgeon(Hudson River population)

  9. Proper Measures of Effectiveness - Prevention of extinction - Population growth toward recovery goals - Recovery within the time frame established by federal recovery plans

  10. Ten Species Have been Delisted Due to Extinction Only Two Went Extinct after Listing Prevention of extinction: 99.9% effective Ten Species Delisted Due to Extinction

  11. Population growth toward recovery goals: 93% effective Recovery within the time frame established by federal recovery plans: 82% effective

  12. Prevention of extinction: 99.9% effective Population growth toward recovery goals: 93% effective Recovery within the time frame established by federal recovery plans: 82% effective

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