Delisting is considered possible for 92% of threatened species with recovery plans under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
Notes on verification
Directly confirmed by the peer-reviewed 2012 BioScience article abstract and corroborated by USGS, Oxford Academic, BioOne, and ResearchGate sources with identical figures. [tier=unverified indep_score=0.3 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable] [rescored 2026-09-15: curated origin-host map (PR #65); unclassified hosts no longer scored as aggregators]
Sources
- how is recovery defined by the U.S. Endangered Species Act? (seed:environment_and_wildlife)
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236868745_By_the_Numbers_How_is_Recovery_Defined_by_the_US_Endangered_Species_Act (corroboration)
- https://bioone.org/journals/bioscience/volume-62/issue-7/bio.2012.62.7.7/By-the-Numbers--How-is-Recovery-Defined-by-the/10.1525/bio.2012.62.7.7.short (corroboration)
- https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/62/7/646/243343 (corroboration)