Context: More than half of habitat for listed species is on non-federal property, owned by citizens, states, local governments, tribal governments and private organizations. Before the law was amended in 1982, a listed species could be taken only for scientific or research purposes. The amendment created a permit process to circumvent the take prohibition called a Habitat Conservation Plan or HCP to give incentives to non-federal land managers and private landowners to help protect listed and unlisted species, while allowing economic development that may harm ("take") the species.

Question: Who owns the majority of critical habitat?
Answer: non-federal property, owned by citizens, states, local governments, tribal governments and private organizations

Question: What program gives incentives to private landowners to protect species on their land?
Answer: Habitat Conservation Plan

Question: Before the amendment in 1982, under what situations could a listed species be displaced?
Answer: only for scientific or research purposes

Question: What fraction of habitat for listed species is owned by citizens?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who created the 1982 amendment?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: When was it decided species could be taken for scientific purposes?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What purpose does the HCP state listed species cannot be taken for?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What can economic development not do under HCP?
Answer: Unanswerable