Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, 1,173 species have recovery plans.
Notes on verification
Figure traces to Neel et al. (2012) in BioScience and is independently corroborated by a 2024 peer-reviewed paper citing the same number. Other sources show the count varies over time as plans are added, consistent with this being a specific historical snapshot.
Sources
- how is recovery defined by the U.S. Endangered Species Act? (pubs.usgs.gov)
- https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.13159 (conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
- https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.27.966101v1.full (biorxiv.org)