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4 Jan 2021, 11:12 am by kblocher@hslf.org
This includes mobilizing 50 new United States Fish and Wildlife Service attachés to combat wildlife trafficking in countries that are known to facilitate or host wildlife trafficking operations. [read post]
30 Dec 2020, 11:56 am by kblocher@hslf.org
Proposed U.S. rule on critically endangered right whales is too weak to bring real change kblocher@hslf.org Wed, 12/30/2020 - 19:56 By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block The National Marine Fisheries Service today released a proposed rule intended to reduce the risk of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales getting entangled in heavy ropes used in fishing gear such as that used for catching lobsters and crabs. [read post]
According to the United States Forest Service, the Tongass is the “largest intact temperate rainforest in the world. [read post]
23 Dec 2020, 10:59 am by kblocher@hslf.org
Fish and Wildlife Service to provide Congress with an explanation of its current policies for allowing imports of sport-hunted trophies of species like lions and elephants into the United States. [read post]
23 Dec 2020, 6:00 am by Rebecca Barho
Fish and Wildlife Service, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and other agencies (collectively, “Agencies”) announced an update to the standard Bank Enabling Instrument (“BEI”) template for use in connection with the development of mitigation banks that will be located in or propose service areas within the State of California. [read post]
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, 1:53 pm by Stuart Kaplow
Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a regulation to finally resolve and codify the legal principal that an incidental bird take resulting from an otherwise lawful activity, for example a sparrows flies into a solar panel, is not prohibited under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. [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
The HSUS and our coalition partners won a lawsuit in April this year against the National Marine Fisheries Service for its failure to protect right whales from entanglements in the “trap/pot” gear used by American lobster fisheries. [read post]
The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) published its final environmental impact statement (EIS) Friday assessing the potential impacts of its planned rulemaking to clarify the “take” prohibition under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) to include only intentional killings of bird species. [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
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech requested an emergency use authorization from the U.S. [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]
13 Nov 2020, 6:48 am by Leland Garvin
In 2018 (the most recent year for which statistics are available), there were 54 boating deaths statewide, according to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission – more than reported in any other state. [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 6:48 am by Leland Garvin
In 2018 (the most recent year for which statistics are available), there were 54 boating deaths statewide, according to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission – more than reported in any other state. [read post]