{"id":248565,"date":"2017-03-20T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=248565"},"modified":"2017-03-20T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T20:00:45","slug":"12-states-get-3-74m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/12-states-get-3-74m\/","title":{"rendered":"12 states to get $3.74M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong>\u2014The Department of the Interior announced Friday that through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service\u2019s Cooperative Recovery Initiative, more than $3.74 million is being committed to nine projects across 12 states to help recover some of the nation\u2019s most at-risk species on or near national wildlife refuges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are targeting our work where it will do the most good for America\u2019s resources,\u201d said FWS acting director Jim Kurth. \u201cThis initiative is a unique way to engage in conservation work with states and partners, giving the taxpayer a good return on investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Species to benefit from CRI funding include the Miami blue butterfly, ocelots, Puritan tiger beetles, masked bobwhite, and spectacled eiders.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2013, FWS has funded 66 projects for nearly $27 million through the CRI. Other species that have benefited include the Oregon chub, the first fish in the nation to be taken off the endangered species list; Sonoran pronghorn; dusky gopher frog; and red-cockaded woodpecker. These projects often provide conservation benefits to other imperiled species and encourage partnerships with states and private groups.<\/p>\n<p>In the Pacific region, the funding will protect two endangered Hawaiian waterbirds and core wetland habitats at Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p>\n<p>A project team will establish long-lasting protections for two endangered birds, the Hawaiian coot and Hawaiian stilt, against predators and ungulates and create new habitat, resulting in a large-scale restoration of Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge, a critically important wetland habitat in Hawaii. <strong>(DOI)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014The Department of the Interior announced Friday that through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16027,4627,11924,1589],"class_list":["post-248565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cooperative-recovery-initiative","tag-cri","tag-fws","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}