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🌿🐾 Happy World Wildlife Day! 🐘🐅 Join us in celebrating the incredible beauty of our biodiversity. From the smallest insects to the big cats, every species plays a vital role in maintaining the balance of our planet. 📷by Levi Novey/USFWS

CITES CoP20 Update! Our 2nd Federal Register notice in preparation for the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora is at ow.ly/JhF750UANpT. We invite comments by January 27, 2025.

Happy National Bird Day! We’re soaring with excitement to announce 7 projects awarded by the Combating Wildlife Trafficking Program’s Species Conservation Catalyst Fund to help reduce trafficking of songbirds for singing competitions🦜Learn more: ow.ly/asvw50Uzzrx

We welcome Turkmenistan as the 185th Party to CITES! Turkmenistan’s deserts, mountains & great steppes are home to 94 animal & 15 plant species protected by CITES, including the Imperial eagle & more: ow.ly/UfS050UzCuW 📷Bernd Thaller/CC BY 2.0: flic.kr/p/2gorPoT

From December 2024 through March 2025, our National Wildlife Property Repository will be accepting public donations of products made with pangolin. Our donation page provides information to guide you through the process. ow.ly/Rt5Q50Up4NL

The monarch butterfly is a tiny critter that unites a continent, migrating annual across 3,000 miles from Canada and the U.S. to Mexico. The Service and partners in Mexico have long protected forests in the monarch’s overwintering grounds. Learn more🦋👉ow.ly/gFEs50UpisT

📢 New funding opportunity! 📢 Our Great Ape Conservation Fund has announced the FY25 funding opportunity for Africa: MENTOR-ApeHealth! Proposals due February 4, 2025. Info at: ow.ly/VcsG50Umqpn 🦍 Photo credit: Dirck Byler/USFWS

This jaguar in Honduras invites you to celebrate International Jaguar Day! From Mexico to Argentina, the grantees in our Latin American Regional Program celebrate jaguars every day and work with communities to help these iconic cats thrive. Learn more: ow.ly/OpWj50UieKk

A win-win solution to climate change, habitat loss, and community wellbeing doesn't exi- Forestry concession programs in Mesoamerica are working with local communities to restores and sustainably use forests. 👉Learn more here: ow.ly/qqR850Tn4ii #OneHealthDay

Happy #NationalBisonDay and #NationalNativeAmericanMonth! We're pleased to share a new Letter of Intent of the #TrilateralCommittee (a partnership among Canada, Mexico, and the United States) to strengthen the conservation of the American bison. More: ow.ly/8Mb950TYBJY

📢 New funding opportunity! Our Central Africa Regional Program has announced the FY24 Bushmeat Funding Opportunity to address the threat of the illegal urban bushmeat trade of protected species. Proposals are due November 18, 2024. 👉 Learn more: ow.ly/EIJ950Tj5Fj

We're flying high this week, because our MENTOR-Bat 🦇 program just held its second in-person workshop in Yogyakarta, Indonesia with a special emphasis on evidence-based bat conservation and One Health approaches. 👉 Read more here! ow.ly/zkgG50T5b4S

Today is International Goat Day! 🐐 We're excited to share we received the Wild Sheep Foundation's Federal Statesman Award for our work to conserve the wild sheep and goats of the world. 👉Read more: ow.ly/V5yt50T38NK

🐘 Happy World Elephant Day! 🐘 Now that you can ID Asian elephants, you should also know that International Affairs works with partners across Asia's 13 elephant range states to address threats like poaching and habitat loss to protect these amazing animals!

Hear from one of our permitting staff who spoke to attendees at a recent veterinary convention about the importance of permits to conserve wildlife, the permits needed to travel with an exotic pet, and how enriching a conservation career with us can be: ow.ly/eize50SLm6g

... and it's a wrap @CITES! Congrats to the U.S. delegation to the 33rd meeting of the Animals Committee and the 27th meeting of the Plants Committee for their leadership and contributions in the last set of technical meetings before the 20th Conference of the Parties of CITES.

Exciting news! The IA's Division of International Conservation is the first government office to be designated an ‘Evidence Champion’ by @ConservEvidence! DIC is committed to using scientific evidence to boost conservation efforts worldwide. #EvidenceBased #EvidenceChampions

Did you know that green sea turtles are nature's lawn mowers? They graze on seagrass beds which make them more productive & keep them healthy. In turn, the seagrass cover serves as crucial habitat for a number of crustaceans, fish & more! 📷 NOAA #wildturtleweek #turtlepower

Each year, the Whitley Awards recognize conservation leaders all around the world. Congrats to Dr. Aristide Kamla for this well-deserved recognition! Aristide graduated from our MENTOR-Manatee Program in 2018 & we’ve been celebrating his accomplishments ever since! 📷USFWS

Canada, Mexico & the U.S. are working together to conserve wildlife & ecosystems! Through the Trilateral Committee, we’re collaborating to protect shared species & habitats. The U.S. is holding this year's annual meeting in San Diego, CA this week! More: ow.ly/OplV50RrgP8