What We Do
Our Services
Collaborative conservation efforts are critical to successfully recover ESA listed species and proactively conserve at-risk species. We provide a range of services to facilitate efforts that further species recovery, including establishment of voluntary conservation agreements and plans with non-Federal landowners; financial assistance opportunities for states, territories, and non-Federal partners; and issuance of permits supporting species recovery that allow otherwise prohibited acts.
Our Projects and Initiatives
Working in collaboration with recovery partners, we implement a wide variety of recovery planning and implementation efforts to achieve listed species recovery. These efforts can include, creation of recovery plans, conducting on-the-ground conservation, establishing experimental populations, periodically assessing the species’ status, and developing post-delisting monitoring plans once a species is delisted. As a result of these efforts, species such as the Oregon chub, brown pelican, American peregrine falcon, American alligator, Kirtland‘s warbler, Louisiana black bear, bald eagle, and Colorado butterfly plant have been successfully delisted from the ESA due to recovery.
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Our Library
Search our library for more information on endangered and threatened species recovery, summaries of our major recovery policies, and national guidance for recovery planning and implementation and five-year status reviews.