Less than 1 percent of species listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act have been lost, according to NOAA Fisheries.
Notes on verification
Directly confirmed by NOAA Fisheries' own statements and corroborated by independent government officials, journalism, and peer-reviewed research (Evans et al., PeerJ/PMC) showing ~99% survival rate of ESA-listed species. [tier=gold indep_score=1.0 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Recovery of Endangered and Threatened Species | NOAA Fisheries (seed:environment_and_wildlife)
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/after-helping-prevent-extinctions-for-50-years-the-endangered-species-act-itself-may-be-at-risk (corroboration)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6482936/ (corroboration)
- https://www.npr.org/2024/06/19/1198911404/1a-06-19-2024 (corroboration)