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Items that appeared on the Endangered Species Program home page during 2003: Endangered Species
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Service Announces Monitoring Plan for the American Peregrine Falcon(December 3, 2003) See our peregrine falcon recovery page for more.
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Something
to Howl About: Gray wolf recovery reaches significant milestone.
(March 20, 2003)The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has reclassified the gray wolf from "endangered" to "threatened" throughout most of the U.S. and announced its intent to propose to remove two distinct population segments from the list of threatened and endangered species.
Read the notices published in the Federal Register:
Final rule to reclassify wolf populations
Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Delist Eastern distinct population
Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Delist Western distinct population
For more, visit the Midwest Region's gray wolf site.
Services Provide Conservation Guidance: Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries announce policy to encourage early conservation.
(March 30, 2003)
The “Policy for Evaluation of Conservation Efforts” (PECE)
will help the Services evaluate current or planned conservation efforts,
and may remove the need to place species on the endangered and threatened
species list.
Read the full Federal Register notice.
PECE fact sheet also available (This document is currently undergoing revision. 9/2007)
Situation Critical: A Flood of Litigation Over Critical Habitat Hinders Species Conservation
(May 28, 2003)
Service Announces Conservation Banking Guidance
(May 08, 2003)
Conservation banking can reduce piecemeal approaches to conservation
by establishing larger reserves and enhancing habitat connectivity, while
saving time and money for landowners. This guidance details how, when,
and where the Service will use this collaborative, incentive-based approach
to species conservation.
Read the guidance. (pdf)
Read the Federal Register Notice of Availability. (pdf)
Federal Register notices:
Safe Harbor and CCAA proposals
Proposed ESA permitting revisions
Craig Manson, Assistant Secretary of Fish and Wildlife and Parks, discusses critical habitat designations.
(April 14, 2003)
"Rational public policy demands serious attention to this issue
in order to allow our focus to return to true conservation efforts," Judge Manson testifies before Senate subcommittee April 10.
Department of Defense Protects Nation and Nature
(February 02, 2003)
Two
recent news articles illustrate how the Army and the Air Force are meeting
the dual challenges of national defense and endangered species protection.
From the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution:
Army
makes peace with woodpecker
and from the Pacific
Daily News:
22
rails find freedom in jungle
Ferrets Start Family in Mexico
Endangered black-footed ferrets, released October 2001 outside the town of Janos, Mexico, have already borne young, a significant event in this first-ever attempt to reintroduce the species into Mexico.
Biologists from the University of Mexico, a partner with the Fish and Wildlife Service in the reintroduction effort, made the happy discovery in September, at which time an additional 69 black-footed ferrets were released.
Read about the original ferret release in the Endangered Species Bulletin.
Red
Wolf Fostering is a Success
In May 2002, the North Carolina Zoological Park donated two red wolf pups to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Red Wolf Recovery Program to help foster the captive-born pups into the worldÕs only wild red wolf population. The two-week-old siblings, one male and one female, were transferred to the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, and later inserted into the den of a wild wolf female. The adult female, who was already raising two wild pups, accepted the two zoo-pups as her own, and went about the daily business of raising a litter of four pups of similar age. See the news release for more information.
Canada
passes federal endangered species act
Canada's first
federal endangered species law, the Species at Risk Act (SARA), was passed
by Canada's Parliament December 12 to protect Canada's species at risk
and their critical habitat. Read
the full story...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Awards $68 Million in Grants to 16 States for Endangered Species Habitat Conservation Planning and Habitat Acquisition Projects
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