[Answer] What was the first animal on the endangered species list?

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What was the first animal on the endangered species list?

• Pigeon:In 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt establishes the first National Wildlife Refuge at Pelican Island, Florida, to protect wood storks, brown pelicans, and other dwindling water birds. Today, national wildlife refuges support nearly 300 endangered and threatened plant and animal species. First Species Listed As Endangered. Federal protection of endangered species dates back to the Lacey Act of 1900, when Congress passed the first wildlife law in response to growing public concern over the decline of the passenger pigeon. In 1914, The passenger pigeon, once the most abundant bird in North America, and perhaps the world, becomes extinct.

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