Service Announces 2009 Candidate Notice of Review
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The New Mexico meadow jumping mouse is one of the 249 candidate species recognized by the Service. Photo credit: J. Frey
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November 6, 2009
The Service released its 2009 Candidate Notice of Review, a yearly appraisal of the current status of plants and animals that are considered candidates for protection under the Endangered Species Act. There are now 249 species recognized by the Service as candidates for ESA protection.
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Learn More About Candidate Species
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Service seeks data on protecting gopher tortoise: deadline November 9
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The gopher tortoise is listed as threatened in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.Photo credit: Randy Browning/USFWS
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November 4, 2009
The Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking scientific information about the gopher tortoise in the eastern portion of its range, including Florida, to decide whether to propose listing the species as endangered or threatened.
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Gopher Tortoise Status in the Eastern Portion of its Range Merits Further Review
Gopher tortoise species profile
Gopher Tortoise Conservation Bank announced for Mobile, Alabama
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Service Announces Proposal to List the Salmon-crested Cockatoo as Threatened under Endangered Species Act
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Salmon-crested cockatoo. Credit: Birdforum.com
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November 3, 2009
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced a proposal to protect the salmon-crested cockatoo of Indonesia as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). If made final, the measure would extend ESA protection to this species. The measure was published in the November 3, 2009, Federal Register.
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Service Awards $800,000 in Grants to Explore Cause, Control of White-Nose Syndrome in Bats
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Brown bat with white-nose syndrome. Credit: Marvin Moriarty / USFWS
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October 26, 2009
At an event held in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoo in Washington, DC, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks Jane Lyder announced 6 grant awards totaling $800,000 going toward research efforts to explore the cause and control of white-nose syndrome, a wildlife health crisis of unprecedented proportions that has now killed more than a million bats in the Northeast and remains unchecked.
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Service Proposes Critical Habitat for Polar Bear
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Polar bear female with young. Credit: Susanne Miller / USFWS
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October 22, 2009
The Service announced a proposal to designate 200,541 square miles as critical habitat for the polar bear and will open a 60-day comment period on the measure. The critical habitat proposal identifies habitat in three separate areas: barrier island habitat, sea ice habitat and terrestrial denning habitat.
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Strickland Announces Service Proposals for 2010 CITES Meeting in Doha, Qatar
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Polar Bear. Credit: USFWS
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October 16, 2009
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland today announced a number of species conservation proposals, resolutions and other agenda items that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has submitted on behalf of the United States government for consideration during the upcoming meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Strickland will lead the United States’ delegation to CoP15, on behalf of the U.S. government.
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Assistant Secretary Strickland Announces Support for Listing Atlantic Bluefin Tuna on International Trade Endangered Species List |
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Atlantic bluefin tuna cruise through the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary during their annual migrations up the eastern seaboard. Courtesy of NOAA
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October 15, 2009
Tom Strickland, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, announced that the United States supports a proposal submitted by the principality of Monaco to list the Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in Appendix I of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES). CITES Appendix-I listing affords a species stringent protection and prohibits all international commercial trade. The fifteenth regular meeting of the CITES parties is scheduled for March 13-24, 2010 in Doha, Qatar (CoP15).
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