The United States House of Representatives voted 231-to-190 on Tuesday to pass a bill to protect some species from extinction.
The Recovering America's Wildlife Act would create an annual fund of more than a billion dollars for the protection of wildlife. The law that protects threatened species has not provided robust funding to maintain their numbers.
Scientists are sounding the alarm about the decline of species.
A recent study shows that one-third of our wildlife is at increased risk of extinction.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, there are more than 1,600 species in the U.S., but state agencies have found more than 7 times that number in need of assistance.
The National Wildlife Federation supports the bill because it says we save for ourselves. He said species loss threatens everything from the insects that pollinate plants in the food chain to the sea life that protects coastlines from storm surge.
The Pittman-Robertson Act was passed in 1937 in response to the decline of game and waterfowl. The law allows states to tax hunting supplies, but not non-game species, as long as the money is used for wildlife and habitat restoration.
The State Wildlife Grant Program, which awarded states a total of $56 million this year, is a program that invests more in conservativism than the act.
How to pay for this investment is a big problem.
The current draft is flawed because it would create a new permanent spending program. He told them to vote against it.
15% of all conservativism money would be required to be used to restore populations of federally- listed animals and plants.
The White House said it supports the goals of the bill.
Companion legislation in the Senate is co-sponsored by 16 Republicans.
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