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National Wildlife Refuge System: Conserving Our Lands and Resources
DOI Secretary Ken Salazar Announces Initiative to Conserve Working Lands and Wildlife Habitat in the Everglades Headwaters
January 7, 2010
 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with private landowners, conservation groups and federal, tribal, state and local agencies to develop a new national wildlife refuge and conservation area. Photo Caption: Hatchineha Ranch. Credit: © Eric Blackmore
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National Wildlife Refuge System: Conserving Our Lands and Resources
President Signs Refuge Volunteer Bill
January 6, 2010
 President Obama has signed into law the National Wildlife Refuge Volunteer Improvement Act of 2010. The law maintains the current funding authorization level for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's volunteer and community partnership programs that are vital to national wildlife refuges. More than 39,000 volunteers and Refuge Friends contribute nearly 1.4 million hours of support annually on national wildlife refuges. Photo Caption: With pen in hand, President Obama sits at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office as Staff Secretary Lisa Brown organizes a stack of 35 bills for him to sign into law, Jan. 4, 2011. Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
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Promoting Global Wildlife Conservation
Two Indian Rhinocerous Successfully Translocated with Support from Fish and Wildlife Service
January 6, 2010
 In December 2010, two female Indian rhinos, a mother and a juvenile, were translocated from Pobitora National Park, a small park where rhinos are densely populated, to Manas National Park, a much larger habitat which lost its rhinos to poaching over the past two decades. Both rhinos were successfully released and are exploring their new home. Photo Caption: Female rhinos are released into Manas national park Credit: WWF-India
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Promoting Global Wildlife Conservation
Time Magazine Honors Colombian Toad Discovered with Support from Fish and Wildlife Service
January 6, 2010
 A new species of beaked toad, this tiny 2 cm amphibian has a distinctive hooked snout that's been likened to the 'Simpsons' television show character, Mr. Burns. The USFWS Wildlife Without Borders - Amphibians In Decline fund supported the search for 'lost' amphibian species, which led to this toad's discovery in Colombia. Photo Caption: Mr. Burns' Beaked Toad. Credit: Don Church / Global Wildlife Conservation
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Promoting Global Wildlife Conservation
Egg Smugglers Plead Guilty to Felony Counts
December 30, 2010
 The owner of a Miami pet store catering to homing/racing pigeon enthusiasts and his daughter pleaded guilty to felony Lacey Act charges in connection with their attempt this past June to smuggle 72 viable pigeon eggs into the United States from Cuba in violation of Federal wildlife and agriculture laws. Each egg was concealed in a cotton-padded plastic Easter-egg shell and hidden in luggage being brought back from Cuba. U.S. officials consider eggs and birds from that country a potential source for avian influenza and other deadly diseases that could readily spread to U.S. wild and domestic bird populations. Photo Caption: Plastic Easter eggs provided a way to conceal live pigeon eggs. Under U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations, such eggs cannot legally enter the country without veterinary certification that they come from flocks that are free of disease. Credit: USFWS
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Promoting Global Wildlife Conservation
Seven Brazilian Bird Species Receive Endangered Species Act Protection
December 28, 2010
 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today a final rule to list the black-hooded antwren, Brazilian merganser, cherry-throated tanager, fringe-backed fire-eye, Kaempfer’s tody-tyrant, Margaretta’s hermit, and southeastern rufous-vented ground-cuckoo as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Photo Caption: Brazilian merganser. Credit: © BirdLife International
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Threatened and Endangered Species: Achieving Recovery and Preventing Extinction
Fish and Wildlife Service Clarifies Basis for Listing Polar Bear as “Threatened” Under the Endangered Species Act
December 22, 2010
 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today clarified for the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC the legal basis for its 2008 decision to protect the polar bear as a “threatened” species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and confirmed for the Court that the designation was consistent with the Service’s longstanding science-based practices in determining the appropriate listing status for a given species. The “threatened” designation of the polar bear under the ESA does not change as a result of today’s Court filing.
Photo Caption: A polar bear near the Alaska shore. Credit: Mike Lockhart / USFWS
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