The primary problem for endangered-species and habitat protection is gross underfunding of agencies like the National Park Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and NOAA, combined with a lack of fundamental data—for example, there is no population history of Yellowstone grizzly bears adequate to determine what a 'recovery' target should even be.

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Speaker

Daniel Botkin

Evidence Quote

our mouths are bigger than our actions that we're talking about the disasters of threats to endangered species but we're not really paying what we need to pay if we really believe that's a problem

Source

Daniel Botkin on Nature, the Environment and Global Warming 11/26/2007EconTalk
Created: 6/16/2026, 2:13:19 PM

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