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Bobcat.
Credit: Dave Menke / USFWS
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Promoting International Wildlife Conservation
U. S. Bobcat Proposal Fails to Receive International Support
March 17, 2010
The proposal to remove the bobcat (Lynx rufus) from the list of species of wildlife regulated in the international trade was rejected by the Parties reviewing proposals today at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP15) to the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
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Benito Perez, Chief of Law Enforcement accepts award from Willem Wijnstekers, Secretary-General of CITES.
Credit: USFWS
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Promoting International Wildlife Conservation
Service, Justice Department Honored for Sea Turtle Investigation
March 15, 2010
Service Office of Law Enforcement personnel and U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors who worked on Operation Central – an undercover investigation of illegal trafficking in sea turtle parts and products – have received the 2010 Clark R. Bavin Law Enforcement Award in recognition of their efforts to safeguard CITES-protected wildlife.
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Threatened and Endangered Species: Achieving Recovery and Preventing Extinction
United States to Support Trade Restrictions on Bluefin Tuna, Polar Bears, and Other Imperiled Species at CITES Conference in Qatar
March 12, 2010
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland said the United States will support trade restrictions on bluefin tuna, polar bears, and imperiled corals and sharks among other proposals at the meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) that begins next week.
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A brown pelican visits Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Credit: USFWS
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National Wildlife Refuge System: Conserving Our Lands and Resources
Service’s National Wildlife Refuge System Celebrates 107 Years of Conservation
March 12, 2010
Visionaries in Florida and across the country – sportsmen, scientists, everyday citizens – saw what was happening to the land and its wildlife and said, we can – and we have to – do better. So, was born the National Wildlife Refuge System on March 14, 1903, when President Theodore Roosevelt created the first bird reservation at Pelican Island in Florida.
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All 67 ocean bird species in U.S. waters, such as the Laysan albatross, show a medium or high vulnerability to climate change.
Credit: Michael Lusk / USFWS
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Climate Change
New Report Outlines Threats to Hundreds of Bird Species from Climate Change
March 11, 2010
Climate change threatens to further imperil hundreds of species of migratory birds, already under stress from habitat loss, invasive species and other environmental threats, a new report released today by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar concludes.
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State of the Birds Report website
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