NOAA Fisheries and its partners monitor a species removed from the endangered and threatened species list for at least five years afterward to ensure its recovery is sustained.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by NOAA Fisheries, USFWS, Congressional Research Service, and joint NMFS/USFWS guidance documents, all consistent with the statutory ESA Section 4(g) requirement for at least five years of post-delisting monitoring. [tier=bronze indep_score=0.539 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Recovery of Endangered and Threatened Species | NOAA Fisheries (seed:environment_and_wildlife)
- https://www.fws.gov/program/recovery/what-we-do (corroboration)
- https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/HTML/IF11241.html (corroboration)