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NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The money is intended to create and protect national parks, areas around rivers and lakes, national forests, and national wildlife refuges from development, and to provide matching grants for state and local parks and recreation projects. Future generations deserve nothing less.”

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2011

The remnant of this once vast tidal marsh is protected by the refuge. Under legislation passed by Congress in 1972, authorization was given to the Secretary of the Interior to acquire 1200 acres to establish the Tinicum National Environmental Center. At that time, the tidal marshes measured over 5,700 acres.

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Wildlife Philadelphia Bald Eagle Pennsylvania 256

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2016

We’ll also be facilitating increased outreach to new supporters and legislative members who’ve shown their interest. This evolved from our artist’s creative input, signifying not just protection of wildlife as a whole, but our focus on valuing and protection of all life as it exists in our Refuge system.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

In May 1992 European Union governments adopted legislation designed to protect the most seriously threatened habitats and species across Europe. This legislation is called the Habitats Directive and complements the Birds Directive adopted in 1979.

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AnimalEquality.net

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Animal Equality in Mexico is shaping the future for farmed animals with legislative reform. With rich emotional lives and unbreakable family bonds, farmed animals deserve to be protected. Advocates are working on two levels—reshaping the food system and plant-based options nationally, while strengthening farm rules locally.

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Mexico Farm Animal Farmed Animals Animal 52

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

” Those lawmakers took bird protection seriously! ” Those lawmakers took bird protection seriously! This unique sound belongs to the Carolina Wren , who unsurprisingly is the state bird of South Carolina! Adopted as the state bird in 1948 , the Carolina Wren actually superseded another species: the Northern Mockingbird.

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South Carolina Legislation United States Birds 204

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.

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10,000 Birds

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 Ducks 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2013

Originally established by President Herbert Hoover in 1933 as the first national park or monument set aside to protect a species a plant and made into a national park through legislation passed by Bill Clinton in 1994, Saguaro National Park protects some of the best examples of Sonoran Desert habitat complete with beautiful forests of iconic saguaro (..)

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Arizona Tucson Miami Shelters 175

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Enter the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission in 1969, created by state legislation, renamed the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission in 2001. (Bruce Springsteen lyrics about “the swamps of Jersey” from his popular song Rosalita didn’t help matters.)

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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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Critter News

MARCH 8, 2010

Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) received the Humane Society’s Legislative Leader award for her leadership in protecting animals. Tags: State of Washington legislation humane society congress us. My husband worked for her years and years ago, when she was just a State representative.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2017

And there is only one certain way to protect the lower parts of the city from floods: let the river spread and flood some other area, before it reaches the city. In the last few years, its members have eBirded 205 bird species within the IBA borders, 136 of them within Beljarica and 108 of those strictly protected under Serbian legislation.

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Eagles Otters Campaign Serbia 189

Critter News

MARCH 8, 2009

The provincial government says it's gone from "worst to first" and Ontario is now the only jurisdiction in Canada with special protections for law-enforcement animals like police dogs and horses. Tags: ontario canada legislation animal welfare. It is now law as of March 1.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

It's the largest civil penalty imposed under EU legislation in which wildlife protection is a condition for receiving funds from the EU's Single Farm Payment Scheme. This guy is the third Scottish landowner to have subsidies cut under these regulations. Don't worry. He's a millionaire. He'll be okay.)

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2014

Would you support a Wildlife Conservation Stamp to invigorate the world’s largest network of protected areas dedicated to wildlife conservation? Each refuge website has a “Visit” tab on the navigation bar and a “Plan Your Visit” sub-menu describing their amenities like auto tours and photography blinds.

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Sacramento Defenders Of Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Ducks 183

Critter News

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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Laws HSUS DC The Humane Society 100

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The RSPCA are trying to raise awareness of its urgent campaign to protect the welfare of UK meat chickens. Right now, the UK government is considering new EU legislation that may increase the number of chickens allowed in rearing sheds. Even at current minimum standards, each bird is given less space than a sheet of paper.

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RSPCA Legislation Animal Welfare Chickens 100

Critter News

MAY 9, 2010

The European Commission said on Wednesday it is pursuing legal action against Portugal for breaching nature protection legislation. The resort falls within a site protected by the Habitats Directive and in the vicinity of a Special Area of Conservation for wild birds (Costa Sudoeste sites). From the Portugal News.

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Portugal Endangered Species Legislation 2000 100

AnimalEquality.net

JULY 11, 2024

An initiative to protect farmed animals in Colima, Mexico has unanimously passed in the state’s Congress. The legislation was presented by Deputy Alfredo Álvarez Ramírez and 11 members of the parliamentary group, who sought to reform the Animal Protection Law of Colima to include farmed animals.

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Farm Animal Farmed Animals Mexico Farming 52

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

As a Northeast birder I am familiar with the alarming decrease in the number of Red Knots along Atlantic shores and have signed petitions and written e-mails calling for legislation and rules that will limit the overharvesting of the horseshoe crab, whose eggs Red Knots depend on. million in the late 1990’s.

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Delaware New Jersey Eggs Research 208

Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This weekend Lagos Town Hall executives are expected to sign a landmark protocol drawn up in collaboration with animal protection association Cadela Carlota, in which it is decreed that the two organisations will endeavour to put a stop to the extermination of healthy unwanted and stray animals being held in the municipal kennel.

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Stray Kennels Portugal Unwanted Dogs 100

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

After two years of heated debate on how to protect animal welfare without scuppering scientific research, the new limits, updating regulations from 1986, were adopted by the European Parliament despite objections from Green MEPs.

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Apes Animal Research Research Primates 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

under the 1969 Endangered Species Conservation Act and later transferred to the 1973 Endangered Species Act; then protected with other birds of prey under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act through agreement with Mexico, but not Canada, in 1972 1. They were officially listed as Endangered in 1970 in the U.S.

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Falcons Wildlife Sacramento Endangered Species 160

Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2011

. – July 28, 2011 – This fall, thousands of people in more than 35 cities across North America will gather for the 2011 Walk for Farm Animals, a series of fun, community-focused events that promote kindness to animals and raise vital funds to support the lifesaving work of Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization.

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Farm Animal Farmed Animals Farm Sanctuary Farming 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The week, co-sponsored by Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the author of Tennessee’s T-Bo Law (named in honor of his beloved Shih Tzu) and numerous other successful pro-animal laws, will also celebrate significant legislation in the push for animal justice in the halls of Congress.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

America’s National Wildlife Refuge System is the world’s largest network of protected areas dedicated to wildlife conservation. Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 2.

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Sacramento North America Wildlife Defenders Of Wildlife 166

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2019

Perhaps you like them enough to have supported legislation protecting wetlands in the United States and Canada. If you love your ducks and peeps enough to contribute to conservation organizations, why not check first whether these organizations are working to protect wetlands south of the United States borders?

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Ducks Blackbirds Pelicans United States 122

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

The government, which is currently lead by the right-wing National Party, has said that the legislation will not open up national parks, world heritage sites, ecological reserves or the like. People, they argue, are more important than bugs, and besides, the money will help pay to protect other conservation land.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 190

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

One unusual feature of this guide is the back-of-the-book section on “British and Irish Lists, and status and legislation.” and population estimate above the map and the bird’s most likely habitats below the map.

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Ireland Birds Falcons Turtles 182

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Legislation forbidding cruelty to animals represents the use of coercion against the interests of the individual coerced, and not to further the interests of any other person (it may do so but need not to be justified). Yet it is legislation that few of us should wish to condemn as lacking in justification. (It

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Cruelty Legislation Kangaroos Animal 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 11, 2010

2): We disagree with your contention that the First Amendment protects animal “crush” videos. These videos, the subject of House legislation and of a bill that we plan to introduce, are beyond “disgusting”—and go beyond conventional conceptions of animal cruelty. We believe our new legislation will pass constitutional muster.

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New York Times District of Columbia New York Animal Cruelty 40

Critter News

MAY 23, 2011

The Animal Legal Defence Fund says in its fourth annual report ranking Canada’s 13 provinces and territories on their animal protection laws that only Nunavut ranks worse than Quebec. An animal rights group based in the United States has ranked Quebec “the best province to be an animal abuser” in a report on Canada’s animal welfare record.

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Animal Abuse Animal Welfare Animal United States 100

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an issue small businesses can’t afford to ignore. The legislation, which took effect May 25, requires all businesses with customers in the EU to comply with a complex and exhaustive set of data laws. GDPR Compliance.

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Adoptable Legislation 2020 Laws 83

Animal Ethics

APRIL 23, 2008

To the Editor: In his past comments about protecting animals and nature, Pope Benedict XVI is building upon the Roman Catholic Church’s tradition of promoting faithful stewardship of all creatures (“ A Cat Lover in the Vatican Strikes a Chord With Cat Lovers Around the World ,” news article, April 20).

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New York Times Humane Society Of The United States Puppy Mills New York 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

New York’s protection of laborers should be a first step toward recognition of the other systemic abuses that occur on farms that, like the long-ignored rights of farm workers, have been constantly disregarded by legislators. Deborah Dubow Press Washington, Sept.

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New York Times Foie Gras Animal Welfare Institute New York 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.” In the United States, most believe that gaining personhood is much more probable through legislative enactment than through a constitutional change.

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