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Activities/Agreements, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
January 2, 2003 The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is concerned with the fate of wildlife across our country's borders as well as within. Many of the species that are familiar to us in our backyards spend much of their time in Canada or Mexico, or both, or have broad ranges that extend beyond the borders of any one country. Some species found in other countries may be brought into the United States as pets, as hunting trophies, or in commercial products resulting from activities that could threaten their long term survival. The Service's Endangered Species Program http://endangered.fws.gov/index.html deals primarily with species found in the U.S. and our territories, while the International Affairs Program deals primarily with foreign endangered species (including permits for their import or export, representing the Service under CITES). These species occasionally overlap. Both programs work closely with the governments of Canada and Mexico to cooperatively conserve species at risk across North America. Canada/Mexico/U.S. Trilateral Committee for Wildlife and Ecosystem Conservation and Management http://www.trilat.org/ - Site created by the International Biological Informatics Program, U.S. Geological Survey, as part of the U.S. National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) The Endangered Species Program is the U.S. co-chair for the subgroup Shared Species Working Table. Any U.S. Federal agency planning to undertake endangered species field work in Mexico or Canada should coordinate it through this Working Table. U.S./Canada Framework for Cooperation in the Protection and Recovery of Wild Species At Risk The Endangered Species Program is the Federal lead for coordinating with the Canadian Wildlife Service and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans; assists the Services' Regional and Field Offices with crossborder communication for conservation and recovery efforts for shared species. http://international.fws.gov/pdf/trilateraleng.pdf Report on cooperative recovery efforts for 10 shared species "Conserving Borderline Species." http://www.speciesatrisk.gc.ca/publications/cbs/index_e.cfm North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (NACEC) Organization funded by all three countries and employing a non-governmental staff. Implements the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation, http://www.cec.org/pubs_info_resources/law_treat_agree/naaec/index.cfm?varlan=english a sister agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The Federal lead for NACEC for the U.S. is the Environmental Protection Agency. The Service's Endangered Species Program works with a subgroup of NACEC under its Conservation of Biodiversity program. Our project is called the "Species of Common Conservation Concern." (.pdf report). http://www.cec.org/files/pdf/BIODIVERSITY/SCCC-Web-e_EN.PDF NACEC website is also in Spanish and French. Other Links Canadian Wildlife Service http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/index_e.cfm Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Ecologia (INE) Mexico's Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO) The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), a treaty in effect since 1975 http://international.fws.gov/cites/cites.html Spanish/English Glossary (CITES) http://www.cites.org/esp/resources/terms/terms_esp.shtml Permits for the importation or exportation of certain plant and wildlife species, hunting trophies, etc. http://international.fws.gov/permits/permits.html Species Information A list of threatened and endangered species found in other countries that are listed under the (U.S.) Endangered Species Act. http://ecos.fws.gov/webpage/webpage_foreign.html?&listings=0 California Condors Return to Mexico. Press Release (Aug. 12, 2002) http://news.fws.gov/newsreleases/r1/33CCBB36-A3BD-46F7-93D11782CE63D3AD.html Feature on the Kootenai River white sturgeon http://endangered.fws.gov/features/sturgeon/index.html http://endangered.fws.gov/international/index.html Tools for Private Landowners & States - Learn how the Service and landowners 'work together' http://endangered.fws.gov/landowner/index.html Summary of Listed Species: Species and Recovery Plans as of 03/03/2003 http://ecos.fws.gov/tess/html/boxscore.html A listing of species that have been delisted/removed from the List as of 4-15-2003 (Note: One must wonder if some species on this list had been extinct for quite some time, perhaps even before 'European settlement.')
*On June 14, 1976, the Indian flap-shelled turtle was designated as Delisted Taxon, Original Commercial Data Erroneous in the Entire Range. Within the area covered by this listing, this species is known to occur in: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Foreign (International Affairs) is the lead region for this entity. http://ecos.fws.gov/webpage/webpage_delisted.html?module=521&listings=0 USFWS Reference/Research Services http://fa.r9.fws.gov/r9fwrs/index.html Endangered Species, Fact Sheets and Publications http://endangered.fws.gov/pubs/index.html USFWS Publications http://library.fws.gov/pubs3.html NCTC - National Conservation Training Center http://training.fws.gov/library/index.html TESS - The Threatened and Endangered Species System online database |