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Everglades National Park
Description Everglades National Park, largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, boasts rare and endangered species. It has been designated a World Heritage Site, I

Everglades National Park
Description Everglades National Park, largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, boasts rare and endangered species. It has been designated a World Heritage Site, I

Two young kits peek out from their burrow. Black-footed ferrets are one of the nation's most endangered mammals. Thanks to recovery efforts, however, their numbers are bouncing back.

Credit: USFWS

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Piping Plover chick photographed at Second Beach in Middletown, Rhode Island.

http://www.fws.gov/endangered/map/state/RI.html
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Credit: Victoria Lima/USFWS

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Everglades National Park
Description Everglades National Park, largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, boasts rare and endangered species. It has been designated a World Heritage Site, I

Fly mammal travel

Walrus

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Image title: Icaricia icarioides fenderi endangered fenders blue butterfly
Image from Public domain images website, http://www.public-domain-image.com/full-image/fauna-animals-public-domain-images-pic

lepidoptera lycaenidae

The endangered nene, or native Hawaiian goose, nests on the ground - a trait that evolved before humans brought mammalian predators to the Hawaiian Islands.
Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge, H

Relaxing ape trees

FWS staff with two red wolf pups bred in captivity. The red wolf is an endangered species that is currently found in the wild only as experimental populations in Tennessee and North Carolina. These ca

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Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge, CA
Photo: USFWS

Note: Hopper Mountain and Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuges were created as habitat for the critically endangered California condor. Captiv

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Astragalus tennesseensis. Cedar glade at Cedars of Lebanon State Park, Wilson County, Tennessee

Facing threats from habitat loss and degradation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to add 49 species from Hawaii to the Endangered Species Act. . Photo by Andre Raine KESRP

October 9, 2012: Endangered whooping cranes to add to the recovery of the species learn their migration route above Pencatonica, IL. Photo: Operation Migration.

Piping Plover chicks photographed at Second Beach in Middletown, Rhode Island.

http://www.fws.gov/endangered/map/state/RI.html
http://www.fws.gov/northeast

Credit: Victoria Lima/USFWS

Piping Plover chicks photographed at Second Beach in Middletown, Rhode Island.

http://www.fws.gov/endangered/map/state/RI.html
http://www.fws.gov/northeast

Credit: Victoria Lima/USFWS

BLM firefighters helped save dozens of endangered pygmy rabbits after a central Washington wildfire swept across a state-managed breeding ground late last month.
The Sutherland Canyon Fire, which has

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Image title: Ventral view of an endangered lange metalmark butterfly
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Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog in San Jacinto area of San Bernardino National Forest.
Protected Status: The mountain yellow-legged frog was federally listed as Endangered (Southern California Distinct Ve

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Since 2010, scientists at the various agencies including the USGS and FWS have worked to reintroduce an endangered frog species, the Yellow-Legged Frog, back into it's native habitat in Southern Calif

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Service intern Jessica Sutt examines an Appalachian elktoe mussel found in the North Toe River during the 2011 Endangered Species Day float.
Credit: G. Peeples/USFWS

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Trifolium reflexum, xerohydric savanna of Clarks River bottomland, Marshall County, Kentucky.

Breaching bridal clouds

CBS News Anchorwoman Betty Nguyen and VT DFW Commissioner Patrick Berry look on as USFWS endangered species biologist Susi von Oettingen inspects a little brown bat.

photo credit: Ann Froschauer/USFW

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Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog in San Jacinto area of San Bernardino National Forest.
Protected Status: The mountain yellow-legged frog was federally listed as Endangered (Southern California Distinct Ve

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October 9, 2012: Endangered whooping cranes to add to the recovery of the species learn their migration route above Pencatonica, IL. Photo: Operation Migration.

The biologists are looking for endangered Appalachian elktoe mussels that are carrying young mussels. They’ll be taken to a hatchery run by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission where the y

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Don Hubbs with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and Sarah Sorenson with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prepare to return the federally endangered winged mapleleaf mussel to the Duck River i

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June 8, 2008
Male Kirtland's warbler from Adams county, Wisconsin. Kirtland's warblers nest exclusively in jack pine stands. For more information see www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/birds/Kirtland/ind

El Yunque National Rainforest, Puerto Rico – Two Puerto Rican Amazon parrots are safely caged at the Iguaca Aviary at the El Yunque National Rainforest, Puerto Rico. The parrots are an endangered spec

Urtica chamaedryoides, in a mature bottomland hardwood forest remnant along the Cumberland River, Montgomery County, Tennessee.

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Taxidermy museum exhibit

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The endangered Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) alive at Looe Key. July 1, 2010.

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Nature fast mammal

Safari africa trunk

Potamogeton robbinsii from Edward G. Voss. USDA NRCS. 1992. Western wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. West Region, Sacramento. Courtesy of USDA NRCS Wetland Science Institute.

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Habitat loss and probably over-hunting at the turn of the century contributed to the marked decline of this fox squirrel subspecies, which was listed as endangered in 1967. Credit: Guy Willey

April 28, 2007: Endangered Puerto Rican parrot at the old aviary.
To learn more about the Puerto Rican parrot, visit www.fws.gov/southeast/prparrot/

Photo by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS.

This is yet another amazing capture from our National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center.
The center breeds endangered black-footed ferrets and then prepares them for release into the wild. Here,

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In the summer of 2012, USFWS Region 6 interns visited the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center (NBFFCC) in Colorado to learn how the program reintroduces the endangered Black-footed ferret

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Everglades National Park
Description Everglades National Park, largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, boasts rare and endangered species. It has been designated a World Heritage Site, I

Steve Klett, Refuge Manager for Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge, shows the CARE group a den made of rocks and other material for the endangered Key Largo woodrat.

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Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog in San Jacinto area of San Bernardino National Forest.
Protected Status: The mountain yellow-legged frog was federally listed as Endangered (Southern California Distinct Ve

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In the summer of 2012, USFWS Region 6 interns visited the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center (NBFFCC) in Colorado to learn how the program reintroduces the endangered Black-footed ferret

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Baby loggerhead turtles make their way into the water shortly after their birth Sept. 1, 2011, aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Loggerhead turtles are considered an endangered species and are pr

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A tagged, endangered Mississippi sandhill crane at MIssissippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge. Photo: Scott Hereford, USFWS.

www.fws.gov/mississippisandhillcrane/

Insect blossom bloom

Flag freedom wildlife

Relax nature fast

Cryptoprocta carnivore tree

Image title: The endangered myrtle silverspot butterfly insect speyeria zerene myrtleae
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Carex brunnescens var sphaerostachya, spruce-fir forest on trail to Roan High Bluff. Roan Mountain, Mitchell County, North Carolina.

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Elizabeth Ann, the first cloned black-footed ferret and first-ever cloned U.S. endangered species, at 26-days old.
Credit: USFWS National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center

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Everglades National Park
Description Everglades National Park, largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, boasts rare and endangered species. It has been designated a World Heritage Site, I

Everglades National Park
Description Everglades National Park, largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, boasts rare and endangered species. It has been designated a World Heritage Site, I

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Actaea podocarpa, cove forest at Cades Cove trail. Great Smoky Mountains.

Full-body view of Lophocebus kipunji (Ehardt et al. 2005 sp. nov.). Note the animal's long fur, coat color, lighter area on chest and distal tail and characteristic tail carriage. The artist's reconst

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Here we see a pair of Palila nestlings, so young their eyes are not even open yet, wait open-mouthed for their parents to bring them food. Palila, a critically endangered Hawaiian bird found only the

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Elizabeth Ann, the first cloned black-footed ferret and first-ever cloned U.S. endangered species, at 26-days old.
Credit: USFWS National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center

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Petty Officer 1st Class Maximilliano Castillo of Coast Guard Station Aids to Navigation Corpus Christi carries an endangered green sea turtle to the shoreline in Port Aransas, Texas, Sept. 2, 2013. Co

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Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog in San Jacinto area of San Bernardino National Forest.
Protected Status: The mountain yellow-legged frog was federally listed as Endangered (Southern California Distinct Ve

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Elizabeth Ann, the first cloned black-footed ferret and first-ever cloned U.S. endangered species, with her domestic ferret siblings and surrogate mother.
Credit: USFWS National Black-footed Ferret C

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Taxidermy museum exhibit

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Elizabeth Ann, the first cloned black-footed ferret and first-ever cloned U.S. endangered species, at 60-days old, checks out a snack.
Credit: USFWS National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center

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Auratus background behavior

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Flight flower wings

Safari nature cat

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The Wildlife Crew at the park tags the Spotted Owl to keep track of them because they are an endangered species.

NPS photo by Emily Brouwer

Everglades National Park
Description Everglades National Park, largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, boasts rare and endangered species. It has been designated a World Heritage Site, I

A California Condor flying over Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Kern County, California, USA.

Endangered Hawaiian Petrels, or ʻUaʻu, are one of two seabird species endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and are found nowhere else on Earth. They have declined dramatically due to predation by introduce

Cryptoprocta carnivore tree

Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) at the Buffalo Zoo. One of the cubs Thyme and Warner, with its mother Sungari. The cubs were born at the zoo to Sungari, and father Toma, on 7 October 2007.

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HAWAIIAN STILT BIRD, AN ENDANGERED SPECIES, IS RETURNING TO NEST IN PONDS AT THE KANEOHE MARINE CORPS AIR STATION (ON WINDWARD SIDE OF OAHU I.). WORK OF MARINES ON PONDS WON SECRETARY OF NAVY'S 1973 "

Scientific name: Epicrates inornatus
Common name Puerto Rican Boa
Common name Spanish: Culebron, Boa de Puerto Rico
Status: Endangered
Listed on October 13, 1970
Photo by Mike Morel

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Bird freedom symbol

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Cat head face

Juvenile Leucospermum conocarpodendron subspecies conocarpodendron. Tree Pincushion seedling. Regrowth on Table Mountain after removal of invasive pine plantations. Cape Town.

(Vulpes vulpes necator) in California.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is considering the Sierra Nevada red fox for endangered species protections. Currently the Sierra Nevada red fox’s distribution is

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Einfacher Igelkolben (Sparganium emersum) am Geißböckelgraben bei Philippsburg

Fish and Wildlife Service biologists used these short-tailed albatross decoys to help attract some of the critically endangered birds to Midway Atoll. The chick on the left is a Laysan albatross. The

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Big black brown

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Big black brown

Wild american mammal

Scientific name: Trichechus manatus
Common name Spanish: Manatí antillano
Status: Endangered
Listed on March 11, 1967 and December 2, 1970
Photo by Mike Morel
Location: Puerto Rico

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A Mountain Heritage High School Eco-Club member holds up an Appalachian elktoe found in the North Toe River during the 2011 Endangered Species Day float.
Credit: G. Peeples/USFWS

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Endangered freshwater mussels in the Clinch and Powell River Watersheds in Virginia. Bottom diagonal row, left to right: Cumberlandian combshell (Epioblasma brevidens), Oyster mussel (Epioblasma capsa

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