The return of the riversnails
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A successful breeding and reintroduction program means that the spiny riversnail, a North American freshwater snail, is no longer an endangered species. In the mid-1970s, the snail was found in only three river systems in the US and was considered endangered, but action in the late -1970s and mid-1980s by the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority saw the species reintroduced into the North Fork Holston River and its numbers are gradually increasing.
Publication Name: Endangered Species Update
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1081-3705
Year: 1997
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Recovery updates
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The Fish and Wildlife Service's endangered species program has helped many endangered species increase their population in the wild. Some of the species that have benefited are the least Bell's vireo, white bladderpod, California condor, Lee pincushion cactus, decurrant aster, Heller's blazing star, piping plover, northern flying squirrel, running buffalo clover, American burying beetle and Virginia big-eared bat.
Publication Name: Endangered Species Update
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1081-3705
Year: 1995
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Listing proposals - November 1992
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The Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed that one animal and 14 plants be listed as endangered in order to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. They are: the Delhi Sands Flower-loving fly, the first fly proposed for listing; the Arizona Willow; two plants from Utah; three ferns from Puerto Rico; two sunburst plants from Central California; and six plants from Southern California.
Publication Name: Endangered Species Update
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1081-3705
Year: 1993
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