State and federal governments spent $1.4 billion on programs in 2004 to conserve 1,260 of the nation’s threatened and endangered species. One-third of those funds went to protecting fish, according to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service analysis, released last month.
The 219-page report states that nearly $800 million went for programs to conserve individual species.
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