News Releases

Official press releases and advisories from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service --

• Ivory-billed Woodpecker Search Summary for 2007– Elusive Bird Spotted But Not Confirmed this Year -- September 26, 2007
• Ivory-billed Woodpecker Search Season Ends in Arkansas -- May 18, 2006
• Georgia DNR and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Survey Remote Habitat for Evidence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker -- April 10, 2006
• Deputy Interior Secretary Announces president to See More Than $2.1 Million for Ivory-billed Woodpecker in 2007 Budget -- February 24, 2006
• Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Begins this Year in Arkansas -- December 12, 2005
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Major Land Conservation Purchase $2.4 million in duck stamp funds to add 1,800 acres to Cache River National Wildlife Refuge -- September 27, 2005
• Waterfowl Hunting to Proceed; Fish and Wildlife Service Takes Big Step to Resume Public Use of Managed Access Area at Cache River National Wildlife Refuge -- September 26, 2005
• No Changes Planned for Public Access at White River National Wildlife Refuge-- August 2, 2005
• Partners Establish Protocol to Report Sightings of Ivory-Billed Woodpecker -- June 16, 2005
• Fish and Wildlife Service, Partners Announce Formation of Ivory-billed Woodpecker Recovery Team -- May 25, 2005
• Public Invited To Learn About Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Discovery at Cache River NWR, Next Steps in Recovery Effort -- May 5, 2005
• Media Advisory: Questions answered relating to the discovery of the Ivory-billed woodpecker at Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas -- April 28, 2005
• Once-thought Extinct Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Rediscovered in Arkansas -- Federal Government and Partners Form Rapid Response Partnership to Support Recovery of Bird -- April 28, 2005
• Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Scientists, Partners to Announce Dramatic Rediscovery of a Species Previously Believed to be Extinct -- April 28, 2005

 

Partners Press Releases --

See what our partners are saying about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.

Texas A&M University and the University of California, Berkeley -- Computer scientists join in search for ivory-billed woodpecker (pdf)

Greenwire -- NASA joins search for Ark. ivory-billed woodpecker (pdf file)

NASA -- NASA Laser Casts Its Light Searching for 'Extinct' Woodpecker -- August 2, 2006

National Audubon Magazine

Audubon Arkansas -- June 10, 2005 (pdf) or (Word)

US Army Corps of Engineers -- Memphis District

• Biological Assessment finds Grand Prairie Project unlikely to adversely affect ivory-billed woodpecker -- June 3, 2005
• Conservationists, state and federal agencies meet on future of woodpecker recovery effort -- May 27, 2005
• Corps of Engineers will conduct biological assessment for ivory-billed woodpecker -- May 13, 2005
• Corps of Engineers will work with environmental agencies to protect endangered woodpecker -- May 4, 2005

Big Woods Conservation Partners -- visit their press roomArkansas Game and Fish Commission

The Nature Conservancy -- listing of IBW releases

Ducks Unlimited

• Ducks Unlimited to Plant Record Number of Trees in Arkansas -- July 11, 2005

Cornell University

• News Release -- August 24, 2005