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Published online 23 December 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031222-2
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US Endangered Species Act turns 30
Birthday comes at critical point for US conservation policy.
One of the world's most important pieces of environmental legislation, the US Endangered Species Act (ESA), is 30 years old this week.
The anniversary finds the ESA as it has been for much of its life: dogged by controversy.
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