Forty Years Of The Endangered Species Act
25:05 minutes
The Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, nearly unopposed. Conservation biologist Joe Roman and environmental historian Peter Alagona discuss how effective the Act has been in the last 40 years and what steps could be taken for greater success in the future.
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Joe Roman
Joe Roman is a conservation biologist and a Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Fellow in Conservation Biology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Peter Alagona
Peter Alagona is an associate professor of history, geography, and environmental studies, and author of After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California (University of California Press, 2013) at the University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California.
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