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The eastern gopher tortoise is a candidate species in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. Credit Randy Browning/USFWS Conservation Credit System Now Available as Tool for States to Reward Landowners for Voluntary Actions that Protect Imperiled Wildlife

The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service published a Director's Order to provide incentives for landowners, government agencies and others, to obtain credits for current conservation efforts benefiting declining species. 

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Kirtland's warbler

Kirtland's Warbler

The Kirtland's warbler, an endangered species, is a songbird that nests in young jack pine stands...

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Channel Island fox. Credit: NPS

Channel Island Fox

Four of the six subspecies of island fox on California's Channel Islands – the San Miguel, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, and Santa Cataline island foxs – were listed as endangered in 2004 following catastrophic population declines...

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California condor. Credit: USFWS

Condor Watch

Biologists studying the endangered California condor have launched a new web site to enlist the help of citizen scientists in research aimed at reducing lead poisoning, the primary threat to condors in the wild...

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Alabama sturgeon. Credit: USFWS.

E-DNA Confirms Feared-Extinct Sturgeon Alive in Alabama River

The Alabama sturgeon is a freshwater fish that was historically widespread in the Mobile River Basin of Alabama and Mississippi. The last capture of an Alabama sturgeon was in April 2007 by the biologists with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources...
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Last updated: January 18, 2017