The Plan To Collect and Save the DNA of Everything on the Endangered Species List

Photo: Endangered Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus) – July 24, 2012. Photo credit: David Hinkel / USFWS Headquarters via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Jeffrey Kluger. Time – June 25, 2026.

Not a lot of plants and animals make it off the Endangered Species List alive. Established Under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the list now comprises more than 2,100 struggling species. In the past half century, only 54 species have recovered sufficiently to be delisted (like the bald eagle and the giant panda). Along with the ones that have managed to fly off the list, 67 others died off it—such as the Bachman’s warbler and the Little Marianas fruit bat—going extinct despite government protection. In 2023 alone, 21 species met this end. The thousands of others on the list continue to survive—but on the extinction knife edge. […]

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