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Featured Stories

Delisting Ceremony

Bald Eagle Soars Off Endangered Species List

June 28, 2007/in AEF in the Media, AEF Updates & Events, All News, Challenger the Eagle, Eagles in the News, Featured Stories /by Carolyn

WASHINGTON, D.C – Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today announced the removal of the Bald Eagle from the list of threatened and endangered species at a ceremony at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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Bald Eagle

American Eagle Recovers from Brink of Extinction

June 28, 2007/in All News, Eagles in the News, Featured Stories /by Carolyn

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The American Bald Eagle, the symbol of the United States, which once teetered on the brink of extinction, has rebounded sufficiently to be removed from a list of endangered US animals, officials in Washington announced Thursday.

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Bald Eagle removed from Endanged Species

Bald Eagle Comes Off Endangered List

June 28, 2007/in AEF in the Media, AEF Updates & Events, All News, Eagles in the News, Featured Stories /by Carolyn

The announcement by Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne caps a four-decade struggle to help the national symbol recover.

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Bald Eagles, Once Almost Extinct, Make Comeback

June 27, 2007/in AEF in the Media, AEF Updates & Events, All News, Challenger the Eagle, Eagles in the News, Featured Stories /by Carolyn

The bald eagle was declared the nation’s symbol back in 1782. After nearly vanishing from the nation it represents, the American bald eagle has soared off the endangered species list.

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Eagle making a comeback.

Al Cecere Responds to Bald Eagle Losing Endangered Species Act Protection

June 26, 2007/in AEF in the Media, AEF Updates & Events, All News, Challenger the Eagle, Eagles in the News, Featured Stories /by Carolyn

Pigeon Forge, TN – June 26, 2007 — With the bald eagle scheduled to lose its Endangered Species Act (ESA) protection and related federal funding before June 29th, the American Eagle Foundation wants to inform concerned citizens and conservationists that their national symbol still needs help.

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Eaglets arrive in Knoxville to be cared for by the AEF.

Jet-Powered Baby Eagles Touch Down in Tennessee

May 4, 2007/in AEF Updates & Events, All News, Eagles in the News, Featured Stories, Press Releases /by Carolyn

Pigeon Forge, TN, May 4, 2007 – Yesterday evening at 9:15 p.m., the first two of seven young Bald Eagles (or “eaglets”) from the San Francisco Zoo will touch down at McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville, via Delta Airlines.

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Conservation Award Given to National Eagle Charity

May 3, 2007/in AEF in the Media, AEF Updates & Events, All News, Featured Stories /by Carolyn

The American Eagle Foundation (AEF) received the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) Conservation Award on May 1, 2007 at a special ceremony in Atlanta.

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Senators Bob Corker & Lamar Alexander with Al Cecere and Bald Eagle Challenger

U.S. Senate Passes ‘American Eagle Day’

May 1, 2007/in AEF in the Media, AEF Updates & Events, All News, Challenger the Eagle, Eagles in the News, Featured Stories /by Carolyn

PIGEON FORGE, TN, May 1, 2007 – The not-for-profit American Eagle Foundation announced today that the U.S. Senate unanimously approved (at 8:03 p.m.) a special resolution naming June 20, 2007 “American Eagle Day.”

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Challenger makes perfect landing

No Rest for Friend of Bald Eagle ‘Challenger’

February 17, 2007/in AEF in the Media, AEF Updates & Events, All News, Challenger the Eagle, Featured Stories /by Carolyn

Pigeon Forge, TN – February 2007 –Look into the piercing yellow eyes of a Bald Eagle named Challenger and you sense the travails of America’s national symbol. “He is probably the most famous eagle in United States history,” said Al Cecere, founder of the nonprofit American Eagle Foundation. “You could be walking down Times Square and people will come up and ask, ‘Is that Challenger?'”

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AEF Invites U.S. Businesses, Organizations, & Philanthropists to Safeguard Bald Eagle

November 20, 2006/in AEF in the Media, AEF Updates & Events, All News, Eagles in the News, Featured Stories, Press Releases /by Carolyn

American Eagle Foundation announces new endowment fund to support eagle monitoring and protection nationally after bird loses Edanagered Species Act protection and related government funding – Americans invited to build $100 million “nest-egg” for U.S. freedom symbol.

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Bald Eagle Fights for Foothold After Being Stripped of ESA Status

October 17, 2006/in AEF in the Media, AEF Updates & Events, All News, Challenger the Eagle, Featured Stories, Press Releases /by Carolyn

Pigeon Forge, TN, October 17, 2006 – The American bald eagle is set to be stripped of its Endangered Species Act (ESA) protection. The anticipated date is by June 29, 2007. With more than 7,000 pairs in the lower 48 states, eagle numbers have jumped markedly from the 417 pairs tallied in the DDT-driven 1960s – but many Americans remain unconvinced that the eagle is truly home free.

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Bald eagle to be removed from the endangered species list.

Judge Orders Bald Eagle Removed from Endangered List

August 11, 2006/in AEF Updates & Events, All News, Eagles in the News, Featured Stories /by Carolyn

St. Paul, Minn. – (AP) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday it is working to remove the Bald Eagle from the list of endangered species, following a court decision ordering it do so by Feb. 16 unless it can prove further delays are necessary.

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Audubon Magazine Writes About Challenger and the AEF

January 1, 2006/in AEF in the Media, AEF Updates & Events, All News, Challenger the Eagle, Featured Stories /by Carolyn

Challenger is the country’s most famous Bald Eagle, flying at sports events from stock car races to the World Series. He may well be our most powerful ambassador for wildlife, too, with an all-American appeal that no one can resist.

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President Bush Signs Bald Eagle Coin Act

December 27, 2004/in AEF in the Media, AEF Updates & Events, All News, Challenger the Eagle, Eagles in the News, Featured Stories /by Carolyn

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27, 2004 — Just in time for the New Year, the “American Bald Eagle Recovery & National Emblem Commemorative Coin Act” (H.R. 4116) has been signed into law by President George W. Bush to celebrate and further aid the recovery of the American Bald Eagle. During the final hours of the 108th Congress, the House of Representatives and Senate passed the legislation by unanimous consent right after the Intelligence bill was voted on.

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$5 Gold Proof - Obverse

Congress Approves Bald Eagle Commemorative Coin Act

December 9, 2004/in AEF in the Media, AEF Updates & Events, All News, Eagles in the News, Featured Stories /by Carolyn

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, December 9, 2004 – While Congress was busy debating and passing a suitable Intelligence bill to help defend our nation’s security and freedoms, the very symbol of those rights (and the U.S.A. itself) was also getting a big boost to secure its own future health and welfare. The “American Bald Eagle Recovery & National Emblem Commemorative Coin Act” (H.R. 4116 & S.2889) was unanimously passed by the House and Senate by the end of the 108th Congress on Wednesday evening.

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