1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The populations of several species of wildlife across America are in crisis. The Nation’s efforts to recover at-risk wildlife populations are not keeping pace with the increased demand for natural resources and threats to native wildlife, including disease, invasive species, habitat loss and fragmentation, shifts in temperature ranges, and extreme weather. More than 150 species are presumed extinct, another 500 are likely extinct, and more than 12,000 species are designated as species of greatest conservation need, including more than 700 wildlife species in the United States that are already listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. An assessment of the best-known groups of United States wildlife and plants indicates that one-third of America’s species are vulnerable to extinction and one-fifth imperiled and at high-risk of extinction. (2) A diverse array of species of fish and wildlife is of significant value to the United States for aesthetic, ecological, educational, cultural, recreational, economic, and scientific reasons. (3) More than 100 million citizens of the United States participate in outdoor recreation through hunting, fishing, birding, and other wildlife-dependent recreation, all of which have significant value to the citizens who engage in those activities and provide economic benefits to local communities. (4) It is in the interest of the United States— (A) to retain for present and future generations the opportunity to hunt, fish, observe, understand, and appreciate a wide variety of fish and wildlife; (B) to recover species of fish and wildlife listed as threatened species or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and to prevent fish and wildlife species from declining to the point of requiring Federal protection under such Act