Endangered Species' Road to Recovery

Guest: Peter Alagona, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara The Endangered Species Act is credited with saving some beloved animals, including the bald eagle and the gray whale. But they are the rare exception. Some 1,600 US plant and animal species are currently on the endangered list and only 47 have ever been taken off the list – like the bald eagle and gray whale were - because they’ve recovered enough.