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