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AUGUST 29, 2011

I discovered that they nest on Protection Island, which is off the northeastern coast of the Olympic Peninsula, just west of Port Townsend, in the Juan de Fuca Strait near where it meets Puget Sound. Protection Island and Mt. The second obstacle was to find a specific location where Fratercula cirrhata is regularly seen.

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Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2011

According to this Technorati article , the Humane Society rated the states on their animal protection laws. BEST STATES California (best-yay!) BEST Illinois (best) Maine Michigan Oregon California WORST Mississippi Idaho Hawaii North Dakota Kentucky.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

The Humane Society Legislative Fund is having a contest where you can submit your idea for a new law protecting animals. The winner will get a trip to Washington DC to lobby for it with HSLF staff.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

It’s nice to see laws against killing birds and selling their feathers enforced. ” He faces up to seven-and-a-half years in prison and fines totaling more than $500,000.

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

Malta, you might recall, has the dubious distinction of being a hotspot for illegal hunting of protected birds. So European conservationists and birders expressed reservations about how well Vella would uphold EU laws. During a confirmation hearing, Vella pledged to make sure the laws are implemented in all EU countries.

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MAY 23, 2021

Contact your Town Board, Zoning Board, or, if you have one, Conservation Advisory Board, and ask about implementing such laws. Film the tree cutting, get the name of the tree company, and report it to the Law Enforcement Office of the U.S. 4) Dream of the European model. Fish & Wildlife Service. 5) Display attitude.

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MAY 22, 2015

What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats.

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DECEMBER 26, 2008

The ALDF has released a report on how different states' animal protection laws stack up. Tags: animal law. Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon.

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Critter News

AUGUST 1, 2009

India is to amend its wildlife crime laws to protect the country's tigers, a government minister said. Environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh said that speeding up justice as well as hefty fines are needed to strengthen the Wildlife Protection Act. But is it enough? From the Press Association.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Second, Amendment 2 required a two-thirds vote of each chamber of the state legislature to authorize the transfer, sale, or disposal of land under the control of the state agriculture or environmental protection departments.”. Election Results = PASSED with 84%+ voter support. Red-breasted Merganser. Photo by © Mike Blevins. Denver, Colorado.

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Nevada Georgia Colorado Denver 171

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MARCH 14, 2024

This coat of arms had a prominent place in his law office which clients could reasonably associate with his personal brand. Elements like animals, flowers, weapons, and mottos symbolize various attributes like courage, strength, love, and protection. I am descended from Michael Lonergan who landed in Philadelphia in 1856.

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JUNE 27, 2017

Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation. What about others who work tirelessly to repopulate and protect wildlife, who live in fear this may happen to their colonies? Who suffers for these crimes?

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

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MAY 9, 2019

At the same time, at the western bank of the Volga River corpses piled ever higher… or so starts the plot of the Jean-Jacques Annaud’s movie Enemy at the Gates, with Jude Law as young Zaytsev. And protect them, too. I would advise them to wear a hat, or protect a child with an umbrella for those 20 metres, but to no avail.

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MARCH 27, 2012

Over a hundred organizations have again petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to ban lead in hunting – a move opposed by many hunting groups. At issue is that millions of birds each year end up eating the lead and dying.

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Hunting California Condor Hunters California 211

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

As bird lovers, we’re happy that laws exist to protect birds, and that people are especially looking after protected species. Environmental officials believe the plan can be reworked so that the Plovers’ habitat is protected. But sometimes, what’s best for the birds and what’s best for the humans collide.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In law, there is often a similar approach, memorably articulated by Justice Louis Brandeis , who said “in most matters it is more important that the applicable rule of law be settled than that it be settled right.”. Laws and regulations can be updated over time ( e.g., the list of birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act ).

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NOVEMBER 24, 2013

law against causing the deaths of protected birds without a permit (and no wind-energy farms seem to have such permits). In what is apparently the first case of its kind, a U.S. wind-energy company has admitted that its farms have killed birds, and has settled with prosecutors. These fatalities violate U.S.

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Farming Wyoming Eagles Killing 183

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MARCH 1, 2017

The law of unintended consequences has tragic effects at a zoo in England, as rat poison ends up killing the Rainbow Lorikeets it was intended to protect. Scientists ponder the feasibility of genetically engineering chickens to lay the eggs of endangered bird species.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. Change in Law. That’s easy!”

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MARCH 15, 2016

Individually, many NWRs protect crucial bird habitat. Because many NWRs were established to protect migrating birds, they lie along one of the four primary flyways. These protected areas are not merely convenient, they are essential. The Refuge System protects and, in some cases, restores, some of what remains.

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Critter News

MAY 3, 2009

Montana has passed a law making it difficult to challenge the building of a horse slaughtering facility in that state. The last such facility in the US closed in 2007. This bill specifically makes for groups that might oppose it to use the court system to do so. From the bill, which you can read here : Section 2.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

“The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) and Friends of the Earth (FoE) Cyprus have now released the report on their bird protection camp during the peak of bird migration in autumn 2011.

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Critter News

MARCH 25, 2010

As noted in another post, no protections for marine mammals. But plenty of drivel about improving law enforcement for wildlife protection. Tags: wildlife crime law enforcement CITES BS. Just more drivel out of a toothless organization.

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Laws Mammals Wildlife Protection 100

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Out of these 136 bird species, 108 are strictly protected and further 28 protected by Serbian legislation. Considering the number of species, but also habitats of international conservation concern, protection of this area and its biodiversity is clearly an issue of wider European and not merely local significance.

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Serbia Eagles Protection Boars 171

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MARCH 25, 2016

All birds of prey are protected by state and federal law,” says Eileen Wicker. “If Predators have a hard enough time surviving without having to deal with the fallout from something they’re incapable of even doing. If you have a very small dog, be careful and use common sense. If you have a cat, keep it inside.

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MARCH 22, 2024

Many years ago I interviewed Barbara Young, then the newly recruited chief executive of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), for an article for The Daily Telegraph. Swarovski’s dominance at the top-end of the market is relatively recent; Zeiss was the former No 1. I bought mine in 1975, the year before I got married.

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.

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Critter News

APRIL 23, 2009

Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia voted 10 to 3 last summer to find unconstitutional the rarely used law passed by Congress in 1999. The appeals court noted that the Supreme Court is resistant to removing First Amendment protections of depictions even of illegal actions. Thanks to Animal Law Online for the catch.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This is not protecting hunters’ rights; this is taking away a law that protects the health of both hunters and wildlife. This bill would re-write the Toxic Substances Control Act, in order to prevent the EPA from even considering evaluating the risks of toxic lead ammunition.

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Hunters Wildlife Rehabilitation Legislation Hunting 182

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

By the early 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was aware that poison control centers were reporting 12,000 to 15,000 calls annually regarding children under the age of 6 ingesting rat poison, and rodenticides were documented as causing large numbers of secondary poisoning in wildlife. Need an example of “hypocrisy?” What to do?

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Brown, a case in which the meat industry is attempting to invalidate a California law designed to reduce animal suffering and protect public safety. Tags: meat california farm animal welfare factory farm animal law meatpacking.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Maybe those should be protected too? Given that the Black Kite is politely described as an “opportunistic hunter” – which includes the fact that they are more likely to scavenge than most other raptors – the name choice of the company protecting the world’s cyber ecosystem is a bit weird.

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2011

The Ministry of the Environment is in the process of amending the Japanese animal protection law. From the Petition Site. please visit and sign. The Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA) has proposed that the Ministry exempt JAZA's members from the current requirement to register as animal handlers with local authorities.

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JANUARY 21, 2016

“Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.” (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998). The deal failed due to Russia voting against it, citing uncertainty about whether the commission had the authority to establish a marine protected area.

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JUNE 23, 2018

Then the EIS (environmental impact statement – a document required by federal law) hit the press. From that moment to this, the islands remain untouched thanks to the restrictions of the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act, actions by the Nature Conservancy, and ultimate management by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

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Critter News

APRIL 20, 2010

The Supreme Court struck down a law that outlawed the depiction of animal cruelty. He argued that his documentaries were protected by the First Amendment. A federal judge disagreed and a jury convicted him of selling banned depictions of dog fights in violation of the 1999 law. He was sentenced to three years in prison.

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JULY 10, 2014

, and at the same time not grumpy enough to make them draw their guns (yep – it’s a true story, but do not trust the first impression: they were rough on the outside and soft on the inside, e.g. being fiercely protective of stray dogs and cats – that particular guy kept about five dogs and 15 cats, and they all lived together peacefully).

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