What action is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service taking?
We are celebrating the recovery of the Aleutian Canada goose February 1, 2001, with a final rule published in the Federal Register on March 20, 2001 removing this species from the federal list of threatened and endangered wildlife and plants. What actions contributed to the recovery of the Aleutian Canada goose? Recovery of the Aleutian Canada goose has been a cooperative effort among federal and state agencies and private individuals. The goose was one of the first species to be protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) when the Act went into effect in 1973. Among the most successful recovery activities have been: 1) removing non-native foxes from potential nesting islands in Alaska; 2) acquiring, protecting and managing important wintering and migration habitat 3) moving wild, molting family groups of geese from Buldir Island, where most of the species remnant population was discovered, to other fox-free islands in the Aleutian Islands; and 4) protecting geese through Canada g
