The Outdoor Wire

Endangered Species

NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement is conducting an investigation involving the deaths of six critically endangered smalltooth sawfish in Everglades City, Florida. An employee with Everglades National Park reported the dead sawfish and two dead bonnethead sharks to NOAA experts. Two of the sawfish are missing their rostra (saws). One other had its meat removed, leaving only the carcass.

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Kenos Constantin of Rayne, Louisiana was sentenced July 30 for killing two Whooping Cranes in May 2016. He was sentenced to five years unsupervised probation, 360 hours of community service with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, his hunting privileges were revoked until his community service was completed, he was fined $10,000 and ordered to pay $75,000 in restitution to the LDWF.

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will list the rare Honduran emerald as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Measuring less than four inches in length and the only bird species endemic to Honduras, this hummingbird is in decline due to degradation, fragmentation, and loss of its dry thorn forest habitat as a result of cattle grazing and agriculture.
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The "Service Award" winners in the Mountain-Prairie Region this year are Dr. Molly Webb Kappenman and Mr. Kevin Kappenman, both career research fishery biologists who provide science support and technical leadership for several endangered species recovery programs, including the June Sucker Recovery Program, Pallid Sturgeon Recovery Program, and Virgin River Resource Management and Recovery Program.
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The collaborative research, co-authored by NOAA Fisheries, the University of Washington, and researchers from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks,[1] is specifically designed to incorporate the knowledge of recreational anglers into recovery planning for three rockfish species in Puget Sound—bocaccio, canary rockfish, and yelloweye rockfish, each of which was listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 2010.
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Attorneys with Pacific Legal Foundation Wednesday sued the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) because it persists in listing the manatee as "endangered" under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, even though the agency's own scientific findings say that the species, found in the warm waters of Florida and elsewhere on the Atlantic Coast, should be "downlisted" to "threatened."
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Approximately 4,000 endangered northern riffleshell and clubshell mussels will be released into the Big Darby Creek on Wednesday, Aug. 7, at 10 a.m. within Battelle-Darby Creek Metro Park, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR).
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Montana's top wildlife official has said that his agency will thoroughly review a federal rule expected to be published today (Monday) before responding to the forthcoming proposal to list the wolverine as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. About 250-300 wolverines are thought to inhabit the lower 48 states, with most believed to inhabit Montana.
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