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Threatened and Endangered Species: Achieving Recovery and Preventing Extinction
Service Announces Finding on Status of Broad-snouted Caiman
January 5, 2012
Broad-snouted caiman.Credit: © Jeff Whitlock, Palm Beach ZooThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced a 12-month finding on a petition and a proposed rule to reclassify the broad-snouted caiman population in Argentina from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The Service proposes to establish the Argentina population of the broad-snouted caiman as a distinct population segment of this species. Intense management of the broad-snouted caiman in Argentina has been successful in increasing the population of this species.Photo Caption: Broad-snouted caiman.Credit: © Jeff Whitlock, Palm Beach Zoo
Threatened and Endangered Species: Achieving Recovery and Preventing Extinction
Service Repeals Regulatory Exclusion for Captive-Bred African Antelope Species under the Endangered Species Act
January 4, 2012
Scimitar-horned oryx. Credit: © National ZooThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced a final rule to eliminate a regulation that authorized certain otherwise prohibited activities under the Endangered Species Act with U.S. captive-bred animals and sport-hunted trophies of three endangered African antelope species — the scimitar-horned oryx, addax and dama gazelle. The regulation being eliminated had excluded these three species from permitting requirements as long as certain conditions were met. Photo Caption: Scimitar-horned oryx. Credit: © National Zoo
Connecting People With Nature: Ensuring the Future of Conservation
A Look Inside Wildland Fire
January 3, 2012
A 5-part series exploring the work of managing wildland fire to protect and conserve wildlife and the lands managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Managing wildland fire is tough and dangerous work. Do you ever wonder what really happens to deer, bears, and other wildlife in the path of a wildfire? Who keeps controlled burns under control, and how they do it? What it takes to do the job of a wildland firefighter? Join us for Part 2:  Keeping Fire on Our SideStepping into a Controlled Burn to see what this important work is all about. Photo Caption: Firefighters monitor a prescribed burn along the Colorado River. Credit: USFWS
Coastal Wetlands : Ensuring the Future of Conservation
$20 Million in Grants to Conserve Coastal Wetlands
January 3, 2012
One of the National Coastal Wetland Grants will go to the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife to protect 194 acres of wetlands as part of the Thousand Acre Marsh Credit: USFWSSecretary Salazar announced $20.5 million in grants to support 24 projects in 13 states to conserve and restore coastal wetlands and their fish and wildlife habitat. The grants, awarded under the 2012 National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program, will be matched by nearly $21 million in partner contributions from state and local governments, private landowners and conservation groups. Photo Caption: One of the National Coastal Wetland Grants will go to the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife to protect 194 acres of wetlands as part of the Thousand Acre Marsh Credit: USFWS
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