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4 Mar 2009, 4:16 am
" John Kostyack, Executive Director of Wildlife Conservation and Global Warming at the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) said, "This action demonstrates President Obama's commitment to protecting America's endangered species and the habitats that both people and wildlife depend upon. [read post]
18 Sep 2015, 6:08 am by Michael Markarian
Department of Agriculture to address these critical problems with its archaic Wildlife Services program, especially the unacceptable and cruel practices that the program conducts in the name of lethal predator control—using toxic poisons, steel-jawed leghold traps, and aerial gunning of wildlife. [read post]
30 Oct 2009, 5:59 pm
Reg. 56058 / Vol. 74, No. 208 / Thursday, October 29, 2009 / Proposed Rules DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service 50 CFR Part 17 Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) in the United States ACTION: Proposed rule. [read post]
18 Jul 2008, 12:19 am
Reg. 41007 (Thursday, July 17, 2008)(DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR; Fish and Wildlife Service; 50 CFR Part 17; Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding on a Petition To Delist Astragalus magdalenae var. peirsonii (Peirson’s milk-vetch); Notice of 12-month petition finding.) [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 1:00 pm
The construction would undermine years of cooperative conservation efforts by the U.S. and Mexico, jeopardize wildlife, and destroy this country’s national heritage. [read post]
3 Jun 2013, 1:48 pm by WIMS
Ambs previously served as president of the national conservation group River Network, a job he assumed after serving as chief of the water division for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. [read post]
16 May 2016, 1:06 pm by Michael Markarian
The administration is responsible not only for policies involving hundreds of millions of acres of federal lands, but also wildlife law enforcement, international treaties on trade and conservation, and import policies for wild animal parts and trophies. [read post]
5 Feb 2019, 6:45 am by Brian Ferrasci-O'Malley
Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced plans to amend up to 182 Endangered Species Act (ESA) recovery plans, which potentially cover over 305 animal and plant species, over the next year. [read post]
9 May 2012, 12:56 pm by Steve Davies
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Dan Ashe today met with oil and gas industry representatives to emphasize the importance of energy development in the Permian Basin and to highlight expanding voluntary conservation efforts for the dunes sagebrush lizard on the part of ranchers and the oil and gas industry. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 9:34 am by Vicki Shiah
DEC’s present recommendations depart from those contained in an earlier 2009 Draft SGEIS, which would have permitted drilling in the New York City and Syracuse drinking water watersheds, and which would have allowed surface drilling for high-volume fracking in primary aquifers and on public forests, wildlife areas, and parkland. [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 12:36 pm by David Miller
Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) recently announced  (pdf) that it finalized its designation of critical habitat for the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) in the Pacific Northwest. [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 11:29 am by Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal
Two years after petitioning the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to list Lolita the Orca whale as an endangered species, on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the Orca Network, and others, we are happy to announce that NMFS has agreed to add her to the list, thus protecting her under the Endangered Species Act, the nation’s strongest wildlife conservation law. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 9:07 am by Tinker Ready
In an October letter to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, the National Whistleblower Center staff urged the company to work with the Department of Justice by sharing basic information about illegal wildlife trafficking occurring on the site. [read post]
7 Jul 2019, 3:00 am by Patricia Salkin
The town in this case had been informed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) that several endangered and threatened species might be present on the project site, including the northern long-eared bat, the imperial moth, and the northern bog violet, and that the area also contained inland salt marsh habitat. [read post]
10 Feb 2020, 5:39 am by Sara Amundson
Photo courtesy of iStock.com Following a lawsuit filed by a coalition that included Humane Society International and the Humane Society of the United States, the Department of the Interior last week disbanded the International Wildlife Conservation Council, a committee that in every sense embodied the “fox in the henhouse” idiom. [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 10:25 am by Stephanie Clark
Department of the Interior (DOI) released a report entitled “Review of the Department of the Interior Actions that Potentially Burden Domestic Energy” identifying agency actions that potentially burden the development or use of domestic energy resources. [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 10:25 am by Stephanie Clark
Department of the Interior (DOI) released a report entitled “Review of the Department of the Interior Actions that Potentially Burden Domestic Energy” identifying agency actions that potentially burden the development or use of domestic energy resources. [read post]
21 Dec 2020, 3:07 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Wildlife trafficking and Endangered Species Act: It increases investment in key Department of Interior law enforcement and wildlife and biodiversity conservation programs and continues investment in international conservation efforts to combat the transnational threat of wildlife poaching and trafficking and to protect imperiled species. [read post]