MEDIA ADVISORY
ENDANGERED SPECIES NEWS CONFERENCE
U.S. SEN. PETE DOMENICI & INTERIOR SEC. DIRK KEMPTHORNE
11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 1
628 Dirksen Senate Office Building
DOMENICI & KEMPTHORNE TO REVIEW REINTRODUCTION
OF ENDANGERED NORTHERN APLOMADO FALCON IN N.M.
Bird is Last Domestic Falcon on Endangered Species List
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Pete Domenici and Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne will host a news conference Tuesday to discuss details related to the reintroduction of the endangered northern aplomado falcon in New Mexico.
The news conference is scheduled for 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 1, in room 628 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
The release of falcons in south-central New Mexico this week will be carried out under the Endangered Species Act by the Fish and Wildlife Service in cooperation with public and private interests.
Domenici, as a member of the Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee that funds FWS, has supported funding for aplomado falcon recovery work by the Peregrine Fund for more than a decade. Within the Senate’s FY2007 Interior Appropriations Bill, Domenici secured $150,000 to support Peregrine Fund falcon recovery efforts.
The northern aplomado falcon has been on the endangered species list since 1986.
(Copies of B-roll footage of the aplomado falcon will be made available to the media.)
http://www.fws.gov/ifw2es/NewMexico/
http://www.peregrinefund.org/default.asp
