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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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 Recovery Act
at Work
Replace Walkways on Lower Raceways
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Where: Little White Salmon National Fish Hatchery
What's Happening: Little White Salmon National Fish Hatchery received $29,665 in American Recovery Reinvestment Act funding to replace the walkways on the lower spring Chinook salmon raceways. The existing structures pose a safety threat to the employees as they stand on the walkways to feed the fish and clean the raceways. This project is expected to create two jobs in the local area as crews reinforce the walkways with steel bar grating and stair treads.
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