The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is one of the few dozens of United States environmental laws passed in the 1970s, and serves as the enacting legislation to carry out the provisions outlined in The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). The ESA was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973, it was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation." The U.S. Supreme Court found that "the plain intent of Congress in enacting" the ESA "was to halt and reverse the trend toward species extinction, whatever the cost." The Act is administered by two federal agencies, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

One species in particular received widespread attention—the whooping crane. The species' historical range extended from central Canada South to Mexico, and from Utah to the Atlantic coast. Unregulated hunting and habitat loss contributed to a steady decline in the whooping crane population until, by 1890, it had disappeared from its primary breeding range in the north central United States. It would be another eight years before the first national law regulating wildlife commerce was signed, and another two years before the first version of the endangered species act was passed. The whooping crane population by 1941 was estimated at about only 16 birds still in the wild.
What year was the Endangered Species Act instituted? Were there many laws such as this passed in this time period? What animal received lots of attention? Name something that caused their population to decline? And what else? What year did is vanish from its main range in the U.S.? In what section of the U.S.? How many years passed before first national law concerning regulation of wildlife commerce was instituted? How much additional time before an act concerning endangered species was enacted? What was the number of whooping cranes in the wild in 1941? Did a President enact a certain law associated with endangered species? What was it called? In what year was it made law? What month? What day of the month? What court made a finding about the ESA? Were federal agencies involved in carrying out the act? Name of one of them? And the other? What abbreviation is it known by?
1973 Yes the whooping crane Unregulated hunting habitat loss 1890 the north central another eight years another two years about only 16 birds Yes The Endangered Species Act 1973 December 28 The U.S. Supreme Court Yes the United States Fish and Wildlife Service the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA