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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Sam Hamilton today announced that the brown pelican, a species once decimated by the pesticide DDT, has recovered and is being removed from the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. "At a ...
The brown pelican was taken off the federal endangered species list this week, but don't bust out the shotgun and blast that pouch-billed pest that's pooped on your deck.
JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Department of Conservation is seeking landowners in watershed areas of southwest Missouri with endangered cave fish, crawfish and grotto salamanders in underground caverns on their property. The department has a $300,000 federal grant to partner with the Ozark Regional Land Trust to buy development rights of land tied to caves where the endangered species are known ...
Nearly 40 years after it was pushed to the edge of extinction by pesticide use, habitat loss and hunting, the brown pelican was Wednesday taken off the endangered species list, US officials said.
Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Sam Hamilton announced that the brown pelican, a species once decimated by the pesticide DDT, has recovered and is being removed from the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.
NEW ORLEANS -- Federal officials announced yesterday that they are removing the brown pelican from the endangered-species list, capping a century-long recovery that started under former President Theodore Roosevelt.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Environmental groups are suing the federal government to return a type of flying squirrel to the endangered species list. The small nocturnal squirrel is only found in higher elevations of West Virginia and one county in Virginia.
Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resurfaced after plummeting to the brink of extinction. Interior Department officials on Wednesday announced that they were taking the bird off the endangered species list.
Brown pelicans, once on the brink of extinction, are flying off the endangered species list.
The brown pelican, whose West Coast population was nearly wiped out due to DDT poisoning in the 1950s and '60s, has been be taken off the federal endangered species list.
WASHINGTON - After nearly 40 years of struggling for survival, the brown pelican is coming off the endangered species list.
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