The eastern gopher tortoise is a candidate species in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
Credit Randy Browning/USFWS
January 18, 2017
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.
The Lesser long-nosed bat is an important pollinator of cacti in the American Southwest
Credit: Courtesy of Bat Conservation International, Bruce D. Taubert
January 5, 2017
Although many species of bat across the U.S. are not faring well, the lesser long-nosed bat is bucking that trend. Due to a host of traditional, and not so traditional, conservation efforts, the lesser long-nosed bat has rebounded from near extinction in the late 1980s to being the first bat species proposed for delisting under the Endangered Species Act. The success exemplifies the power, flexibility, and ingenuity that the act inspires.
News Release
January 3, 2017
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking proposals from states and U.S. territories for federal financial assistance for conservation activities that benefit the nation's most imperiled species.
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