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Ilegal ivory trade remains a threat to African elephant populations.
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Cooperative Thai-U.S. Investigation Secures Ivory Trafficking Arrests
A cooperative undercover investigation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement and the Thai Royal Police resulted in the recent arrest of two individuals in Bangkok for trading in African elephant ivory. Enforcement officers broke up an intercontinental operation that smuggled ivory from Africa into Thailand and then on to overseas markets, including U.S. buyers negotiating deals via the Internet.
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Green Team members Matt How and Sue Jung moving electronic equipment onto one of 41 pallets the team collected during the E-cycle event .
Sarah Hall, Green Team Leader
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The Pacific Region Receives EPA Region 10's 2009 Champions of Environmental Leadership and Green Government Award
This program recognizes efforts which meet the Federal Green Challenge goal of overall environmental leadership, or reducing energy, transportation, waste, and water by five percent. The Pacific Region Green Team held an electronic recycling drive which resulted in filling 41 pallets with such items as TVs, monitors and vacuum cleaners weighing more than 16.5 tons. More importantly this effort keeps toxins such as lead, cadmium, and beryllium out of our landfills. Last year the Western Washington Fish and Wildlife Office received this award by reducing waste at their facility from 1,350 pounds to less than 450 pounds of waste per month.
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LtoR: Congressman Norm Dicks; Jean Takakawa, Manager Nisqually NWR; Cynthia Iyall, Nisqually Tribal Chair; and Tom Dwyer, Conservation Director Ducks Unlimited - cut ribbon to officially open the Nisqually Estuary.
USFWS photo by Amy J Gaskill
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Restored Estuary Marks A Dream Come True
More than 300 people turned out November 12 to celebrate the restoration of the Nisqually Estuary, where Puget Sound tidewaters now return after being blocked by dikes for 100 years. A dream 12 years in the making, the restoration was achieved through the vision and efforts of the Nisqually Tribe, Ducks Unlimited, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and dozens of volunteers from the surrounding community. The project, an important step in the recovery of Puget Sound, is estimated to increase salt marsh habitat in South Puget Sound by 50 percent.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Restores Coastal Habitat
FFS# R1FE/FA/FB/FC/FD/FF
Where: Hawaii, Oregon and Washington
What's Happening: The Pacific Region Coastal Program will receive more than $682,000 to restore 365 acres of wetland and forest habitat for migratory birds, chum salmon and other sensitive wildlife species.
Coastal areas support 40 percent of federally listed species, 50 percent of the Service's fisheries activities, 25 percent of the nation's wetlands and at least 30 percent of North American wintering waterfowl.
This year, the Coastal Program celebrates its 25th anniversary. It is one of the Service's most popular and effective programs for voluntary, community-based fish and wildlife collaborative conservation.
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