eagles are a very important part of the environment. By eating
dead animal matter, they help with nature's clean-up process.
Bald eagles are also hunters, so they keep animal populations
strong. They do this by killing weak, old, and slower animals,
leaving only the healthiest to survive. bald eagle is the
national symbol of the United States of America, so when it
became threatened with extinction in the 1960s due to pesticide
use, habitat loss, and other problems created by humans, people
took notice. years the bald eagle was listed as endangered under
the Endangered Species Act. Now the number of bald eagles has
increased so much that in June 1994, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service proposed that they be downgraded from endangered status
to the less urgent status of threatened in all but three of the
lower 48 states. The success of the bald eagle is a tribute to
the Endangered Species Act and is an incentive for increased
awareness and conservation everywhere.