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21 Dec 2020, 3:07 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Fish and Wildlife Service to provide Congress with the briefing mandated in the FY 2020 appropriations package, which the agency failed to complete, on its current policy for allowing imports of sport-hunted trophies of species like lions and elephants into the United States and to explain how these imports benefit the survival of these imperiled species after Congress expressed doubt due to continuing population declines. [read post]
13 Dec 2020, 9:05 pm by Dan Flynn
Others, running from EPA to Fish and Wildlife, have various niche but important roles. [read post]
13 Dec 2020, 1:53 pm by Stuart Kaplow
The Fish and Wildlife Service is the federal agency delegated the primary responsibility for managing migratory birds consistent with four international migratory bird treaties (between the United States and Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Russia) and the implementing the MBTA enacted in 1918. [read post]
3 Dec 2020, 9:05 pm by Sabrina Minhas
Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final environmental impact assessment for its proposed rule that would reinterpret the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 to prohibit only the intentional killing of birds. [read post]
1 Dec 2020, 5:06 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Today, the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society Legislative Fund, along with our coalition partners, asked the National Marine Fisheries Service to take urgent steps to protect these vulnerable animals from one of the leading causes driving them toward extinction—entanglement in commercial fishing gear. [read post]
29 Nov 2020, 8:08 pm by Arthur F. Coon
California Department of Fish and Wildlife (The Newhall Land and Farming Company, RPI) (2d Dist. 2017) 17 Cal.App.5th 1245, (“CBD”), (my 12/11/17 post on which can be found here), followed Preserve Wild Santee’s “reasonable, commonsense reading of Section 21189.9” and rejected plaintiffs’ “rigid” and “restrictive” contrary view derived from LandValue 77. [read post]
26 Nov 2020, 9:05 pm by Max Masuda-Farkas
FLASHBACK FRIDAY In an essay, members of The Regulatory Review’s editorial board charted the history of regulatory efforts to protect the wild turkey population in the United States. [read post]
19 Nov 2020, 6:00 am by Edward Roggenkamp
On November 3, 2020, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service (“Service”) published a final rule removing the gray wolf (canis lupus) from the federal list of Endangered and Threatened Species in the lower 48 United States and Mexico. [read post]
Established in 1960, ANWR is one of the largest remaining expanses of protected wilderness in the US, with over 19 million acres of land and water in northeastern Alaska under the management of the US Fish and Wildlife Service as the largest unit within the National Wildlife Refuge System. [read post]
16 Nov 2020, 12:00 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Fish and Wildlife Service to be concerned that potentially habituating bears to human food could create dangerous bear-human interactions. [read post]
10 Nov 2020, 4:52 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Fish & Wildlife Service is not prohibited from allowing the import of lion or elephant trophies from Zambia, Zimbabwe or Tanzania, where the populations of these animals have declined to unsustainable levels. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 2:22 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a rule to appease trophy hunters by allowing some of the cruelest of killing methods on 20 million acres of Alaska’s national preserves. [read post]
7 Nov 2020, 9:48 am by kblocher@hslf.org
The National Park Service weakened trophy hunting restrictions in Alaska’s national preserves and the Fish and Wildlife Service withdrew federal protections for gray wolves. [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 10:24 am by kblocher@hslf.org
Fish and Wildlife Service attempted to delist them again in 2011, HSUS won major court decisions in 2014 and 2017 that put them back on the endangered species list and halted hunting and trapping seasons. [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 9:06 pm by News Desk
EFSA and member states said they would evaluate the issue and consider risk and benefit in future risk assessments. [read post]
1 Nov 2020, 9:00 am by Kalvis Golde
Fish and Wildlife Service v. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 6:00 am by Vanda Felbab-Brown, Ph.D.
However, to make the tool of whistleblowing adopted robustly and effectively outside the United States, its promotion will need to pay enhanced attention to the safety of whistleblowers – for many, that may mean providing asylum in the United States. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 10:40 am by kblocher@hslf.org
In 2011, Congress directed the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service to remove ESA protections for wolves in Montana and Idaho as a nod to agricultural and trophy hunting interests, and wolves in Wyoming lost their federal ESA protections in 2017. [read post]