Rawa Wildlife Conservation Plan - What's Sexy?

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$1.3 billion is going to be divvied up among states based on things like population, their size and the number of federally threatened species that you can find there. California might get something like $50 million, whereas some smaller states like Vermont and New Hampshire are going to get quite a bit less. But we'll see in the millions for every state pretty much. Calculator tells me this would average out to $26 million per state per year.

The Endangered Species Act was transformative in protecting animals from extinction. Vox’s Benji Jones says its proposed successor, the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, would be the most significant conservation law in decades.

This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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