CONSERVATION
Tags: WILDLIFE recovery; BALD eagle; ENDANGERED species -- Law & legislation; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
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- Symbol of Hope? // Scholastic News -- Edition 5/6;5/7/2007, Vol. 75 Issue 23/24, p2
This article reports on the recovery of the bald eagle, America's symbol which has been on the national endangered-species list for several years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to take it off the list in June 2007. Officials claim the Endangered Species Act, a U.S. law, helped...
- American Bald Eagle Takes Flight. Hankus, Tom // Soldiers;Aug2000, Vol. 55 Issue 8, p25
Focuses on the plan of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to remove the bald eagle from the threatened and endangered species list in 2000. Provisions on the legislation for the protection of animals; Details on their continuing efforts to protect the habitat of eagles; Legislation...
- Soaring Success. // Scholastic News -- Edition 4;9/3/2007, Vol. 70 Issue 1, p2
The article reports on the decision of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take off the bald eagle from the endangered species list. Officials say the Endangered Species Act of 1973 is largely responsible for the eagle population boom. This U.S. law protects endangered and threatened wildlife...
- Welcome Back, Eagles. Cook, David T.; Ingwerson, Marshall; Dillin, John; Foell, Earl W. // Christian Science Monitor;7/08/99, Vol. 91 Issue 155, p10
Editorial. Describes the status of the bald eagle in the United States. Hunting and DDT contamination; Habitat loss; Decision by the Fish and Wildlife Service to move Haliaetus leucocephalus off the Endangered species list to the 'threatened' list; The Endangered Species Act of 1973 as...
- WHERE WOULD THEY BE NOW? Di Silvestro, Roger // National Wildlife;Aug/Sep2004, Vol. 42 Issue 5, p48
Focuses on animals protected under the Endangered Species Act in the U.S. Decline in the population of Florida panthers in the 1980s; Actions taken by the Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the bald eagle; Number of plant and animal species covered by the Act.
- Endangered Species: Time and Costs Required to Recover Species Are Largely Unknown: GAO-06-463R. Nazzaro, Robin M. // GAO Reports;4/6/2006, p1
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 protects species facing extinction (endangered species) or likely to face extinction (threatened species) and the ecosystems upon which they depend. The act has long been a lightning rod for political debate about the extent to which the nation's natural...
- TRIBES UNITE IN FIGHT FOR CONDOR REMAINS. MacGregor-Villarreal, Mary // News from Native California;Spring2005, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p22
Focuses on the action taken by representatives of California Indian tribes and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to work for the release of Adult Condor 8, a condor who had been illegally shot in a wild pig hunt in California in February 2003. Members of the tribal coalition supporting the...
- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. // Federal Register;2/ 4/2013, Vol. 78 Issue 23, p7864
The article focuses on a proposed rule by the Fish and Wildlife Service regarding threatened and endangered plants and wildlife. It discusses the Endangered Species Act of 1973 which states that when species are identified as endangered or threatened, the agency is required to publish a rule...
- RULEMAKING ACTIONS. // Endangered Species Update;2008, Vol. 25 Issue 2, Special section p38
The article offers information on the proposed and final rules in accordance with the Endangered Species Act by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced the acceptance of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Resources to list the polar bear as a threatened...
