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Populations recovered and stabilized, so the species was removed from the U. S. federal government's list of endangered species and transferred to the list of threatened species on July 12, 1995, and it was removed from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in the Lower 48 States on June 28, 2007.

As with the new United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges entry, the old entries for these five islands remained as redirects on the website.

Due to an affliction affecting bats in the northeastern US known as white nose syndrome ( WNS ), the US Fish & Wildlife Service has called for a moratorium effective March 26, 2009 on caving activity in states known to have hibernacula ( MD, NY, VT, NH, MA, CT, NJ, PA, VA, and WV ) affected by WNS, as well as adjoining states.

In 1986, Prince Philip commented on Chinese eating habits at the World Wildlife Fund conference: " If it has four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

Lagow provided the animal to Texas Parks and Wildlife officials for identification, but Lagow reported in a September 17, 2006 phone interview with John Adolfi, founder of the Lost World Museum, that the " critter was caught on a Tuesday and thrown out in Thursday's trash.

Centaur skeleton of human and equine bone, on display at the International Wildlife Museum in Tucson, part of an art installation by sculptor Bill Willers.

Our Incredible War on Wildlife ( 1974 ).

Other federal agencies, such as the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service pursue primarily conservation missions, while still others, such as the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, tend to focus more on beneficial use of natural resources.

Some hotels are built with living trees as structural elements, for example the Treehotel near Piteå, Sweden, the Costa Rica Tree House in the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica ; the Treetops Hotel in Aberdare National Park, Kenya ; the Ariau Towers near Manaus, Brazil, on the Rio Negro in the Amazon ; and Bayram's Tree Houses in Olympos, Turkey.

The Ozark hellbender has been listed as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Oct. 5, 2011.

One of the authors, who was kayaking in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Monroe County, Arkansas, on 11 February 2004, reported on a website the sighting of an unusually large red-crested woodpecker.

Some believe this may be due to deliberate price fixing by those who bought the stockpile echoing the warnings from the Japan Wildlife Conservation Society on price-fixing after sales to Japan in 1997, and monopoly given to traders who bought stockpiles from Burundi and Singapore in the 1980s.

Guano-stained US Fish and Wildlife sign on Jarvis Island

However, on January 7, 2008, George W. Bush appointee H. Dale Hall, Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service ( USFWS ), signed a recommendation to abandon jaguar recovery as a federal goal under the Endangered Species Act.

The Fells, a local nonprofit organization that has maintained and managed the John Hay Estate on Lake Sunapee for over a decade, acquired the northern half of the property from the US Fish and Wildlife Service on March 25, 2008.

" Services are also provided by local and state governments bordering on the lake, including Vermont State Police, New York State Police Marine Detail, and Vermont Fish and Wildlife wardens.

Malden was reserved as a wildlife sanctuary and closed area, and was officially designated as the " Malden Island Wildlife Sanctuary ", on 29 May 1975, under the 1975 Wildlife Conservation Ordinance.

This sanctuary is administered by the Wildlife Conservation Unit of the Ministry of Line and Phoenix Islands Development, headquartered on Kiritimati.

The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service is trying to find a new way to heat the water for manatees that are dependent on plants that have closed.

This public ownership of wildlife is referred to as the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and is based on The Public Trust Doctrine.

The island now forms the Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge and is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the U. S. Its defense is the responsibility of the United States ; though uninhabited, it is visited annually by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.

Along with six other islands, the island was administered by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

Public entry to the island is by special-use permit from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service only and is generally restricted to scientists and educators.

Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge consists of the island and the surrounding of submerged land.

The island is managed by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an insular area under the U. S. Department of the Interior and is part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.

The island is visited every two years by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Pomacanthidae | Angelfish and hump coral-Howland Island NWR. On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.

Along with six other islands, the island was administered by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

Public entry to the island is by special-use permit from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service only and is generally restricted to scientists and educators.

On 27 June 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.

Along with six other islands, the island was administered by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

The island is visited periodically by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the United States Coast Guard.

In 2010, a Fish and Wildlife survey team identified a swarm of Anoplolepis ants that had invaded the island.

The island was later converted to a National Wildlife Refuge and now includes of land and over of water area.

The entire island is a Wildlife Sanctuary ; access to five particularly sensitive areas ( see below ) is restricted.

The waters around the island are a marine nature reserve owned by Cornwall Wildlife Trust and form part of the Looe Voluntary Marine Conservation Area ( VMCA ).

On her death, the island was made a bequest to the Cornwall Wildlife Trust ; it will be preserved as a nature reserve in perpetuity.

The island is owned and managed by a charity, the Cornwall Wildlife Trust.

* Castle Rock ( Del Norte County, California ), an island near Crescent City, California Castle Rock National Wildlife Refuge

It is located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as a part of Dukes County, which also includes Cuttyhunk and the other Elizabeth Islands, as well as the island of Nomans Land, which is both a US Wildlife preserve, as well as a US Naval practice bombing range which continues to be controversial.