Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

How is anyone to know if it came from a species that is protected under national or international law? Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking endangered species. Once an animal has been carved up, meat looks like meat and leather looks like leather. A technique called DNA bar coding could be the answer.

Meat

Critter News

AUGUST 1, 2009

India is to amend its wildlife crime laws to protect the country's tigers, a government minister said. He added that the forest ministry, state governments and a separate authority on the management of tiger reserves had agreed to work together to ensure conservation of the endangered animal. But is it enough?

Tigers

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2017

Please give a warm welcome to Jason Crotty, who will be writing about “General Birding and the Law” on the second Tuesday of each month. A Bay Area native, he started birding while working at a large law firm in San Francisco, but birds less frequently now that there’s a toddler around so he writes instead.

Puerto Rico

Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2009

This listing decision didn't take those efforts into account as required by law." Tags: beluga whale Palin alaska endangered species. "The State of Alaska has worked cooperatively with the federal government to protect and conserve beluga whales in Cook Inlet," Palin said last week.

Whaling

Critter News

APRIL 18, 2009

Not guilty of gorilla killings - guilty of illegal charcoaling The Wildlife Officers were charged by the Congolese Wildlife Authority with the "destruction of flora and fauna" under Wildlife Law OL 069-41 of August 1969. Tags: wildlife crime virunga congo gorillas endangered species.

Congo

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

The System also helps implement the Endangered Species Act and other federal conservation laws. The System also protects bison , bighorn sheep , panthers , elk , grizzly bears , manatees , and ocelots , among others. Birders have a unique interest in the status of the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Wildlife

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

” How ironic that on the 50th anniversary of this exceptional law, one legislator, Rob Bishop (R-Utah), Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, has taken it upon himself to block this program’s continuing conservation accomplishments. Future generations deserve nothing less.”

Legislation

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2016

Some background is required: The National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 overhauled the laws governing the Refuge System and one provision of that Act required CCPs. Chapter 4 (“Biological Environment”) addresses habitats, animal species, threatened and endangered species, invasive species, and habitat monitoring.

Wildlife

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2018

Following passage of the United States Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the California Condor ( Gymnogyps californianus ) was among the first 75 species listed for protection, the so-called “Class of 1967”. So, what is Kölsch, exactly?

California Condor

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

For example, the Endangered Species Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act—America’s most important avian conservation laws—apply in both territories. While there is obviously no requirement that the ABA align itself with the federal government, not doing so results in some oddities. Both territories are also part of the U.S.

Puerto Rico

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

Several endangered species are (or have been) highly dependent on specific tracts of federal land. Thus, legal protections for endangered species and conservation generally are at their zenith on federal lands. For example, Whooping Cranes winter almost exclusively at Aransas NWR in Texas.

Virgin Islands

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. Charles Pease shot the bird in northeastern Ohio, and gave it to his father-in-law, Jared Kirtland, one of those 19th century men who was a master multitasker–physician, horticulturist, legislator, zoologist. Kirtland, in turn, gave the skin to Dr. Spencer F.

Michigan

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

The banning of DDT and subsequent management of the species led to Bald Eagles being the poster child for the success of the Endangered Species Act. Want to see all of the national bird posts on 10,000 Birds?

United States

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2017

The Preliminaries : Paragraphs 1-5 identify the issues at a high level: the lawsuit involves a proposed turbine at a facility near Ottawa NWR in Ohio that will allegedly kill birds in violation of federal law. Paragraphs 32-39 set forth an overview of the laws that plaintiffs argue would be violated if the turbine constructed.

Ohio

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Any animal threatened with a gun or arrow is endangered. Hunters kill members of endangered species. law is even more speciesist than the U.S.

Speciesism

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air and Water Acts, and similar acts in Canada. Highly migratory species” belong to all nations and not just those that wish to exploit them. Allocation of Wildlife by Law – Public participation is essential in development of wildlife management policies.

Wildlife

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

While there are laws in place protecting endangered species of shark from shark finning, international waters are rarely regulated when it comes to the practice. Fin hunters also rarely care what type of shark they remove the fin from, threatening both endangered and at risk species with extinction.

Sharks

Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Animals killed also include threatened and endangered species, a number which has steadily increased since 2005. Estimates of predator populations by State fish and game officials indicate that the number of predators removed by WS is small compared with overall predator numbers.

Killing

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2012

This is a roundabout way of introducing Australia’s most dangerous bird, because of course a country where an agonizing death lurk in every lake, river or law has a bird that can you kill you too. Danger, danger, danger! And that bird is the Southern Cassowary.

Sharks

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2022

I initially thought I would focus on the intersection of birding and the law and birding on federal public lands, and I have done lots of posts on those topics. I suspect many pageviews are by birders who feel they ought to know a bit more about how the law impacts bird conservation, rather than their intrinsic interest of the topic.

Puerto Rico

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2020

For those interested in avian conservation, some knowledge of the bureaucratic process is useful, as it is used to implement many important conservation laws. For example, the process applies to, among other things, the listing (and delisting) of species under the Endangered Species Act and interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

Ducks

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2020

Rather, it turned on arcane issues of administrative law. Every law school has an Administrative Law class that focuses on the APA and related laws. The case did not turn on facts regarding threats that leases posed to sage-grouse or any other conservation facts or policies.

Idaho

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2022

I initially thought I would focus on the intersection of birding and the law and birding on federal public lands, and I have done lots of posts on those topics. I suspect many pageviews are by birders who feel they ought to know a bit more about how the law impacts bird conservation, rather than their intrinsic interest of the topic.

Puerto Rico

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2017

One might assume that construction of a border wall through a sensitive national wildlife refuge would be prevented, or at least slowed, by a thicket of lawsuits under statutes such as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This appears to include both state and federal laws.

Laws

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game. Even with today’s environmental laws, we are losing species at an alarming rate, and with Ryan Zinke as Interior Secretary it’s no wonder. A newly created U.S.

Hunting

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But alternatives are being largely being ignored and laws that would require consideration of other options will be simply be waived. It would also consider cost, design, location, and other variables, such as the impact on the environment, including endangered species.

Texas