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5 Jun 2018, 6:00 am
Trump) Where a clause is penal in nature, in that the sum is extravagant and unconscionable in comparison to the amount of conceivable loss and is not a genuine pre-estimate of damages, the clause can be struck (See: Habitat for Humanity Canada v. [read post]
26 May 2018, 7:57 am
That session was followed by more optimistic presentations, including Jan-Niklas Sievers on the expansion of German University legal aid clinics for asylum seekers, Jonathan Weaver and Franceso Tonnarelli of UN Habitat on new strategies for Integrated Urban design as a durable solution, Jennifer Prestholdt of the Advocates for Human Rights, on the important lessons learned from the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Diaspora Project… [read post]
24 May 2018, 9:42 am
After oral arguments in the Ninth Circuit, the suit settled, with Slater agreeing to donate 25% of his revenue from the photos to charities that protect the macaque’s habitat. [read post]
22 May 2018, 8:17 am
Humans are directly responsible for the extinctions and near-extinctions of a number of treasured species, including elephants, rhinoceroses, and tigers due to poaching and habitat degradation. [read post]
14 May 2018, 7:08 am
[But] the same is true of human infants or comatose human adults, yet no one would suppose that it is improper to seek a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of one's infant child or a parent suffering from dementia.... [read post]
4 May 2018, 11:40 am
Like, let’s build 1,500 — or 1,000 — or 500 acres of sandbar habitat. [read post]
4 May 2018, 7:34 am
"Given PETA’s tendency to engage in (frequently misogynistic) publicity stunts, one cannot help but think that the point of the Naruto lawsuit—like the point of much PETA activity—was to call attention to PETA rather than to the plight of crested macaques and members of other free-living species whose habitat is threatened. [read post]
1 May 2018, 9:01 pm
Animal agriculture harms the animals that humans breed, exploit, and kill for food and fiber, but it also harms free-living species like macaques, because animal agriculture encroaches on habitat. [read post]
30 Apr 2018, 10:18 am
Brook trout are being reestablished into streams that can support a natural reproduction through stocking, habitat restoration, and increased regulations being put in place to protect these waters. [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 10:25 am
The potential recognition of a far-ranging duty to protect fish habitat has spurred amicus briefs from many states and business groups, among others. [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 9:48 am
Polar bears often feature in the questions surrounding climate change, because a polar bear’s very existence is predicated on its habitat, the polar ice, which melts as the temperatures rise, thus depriving the species of its means of hunting for food. [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 4:00 am
In January, I wrote about the petition filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in D.C. federal district court for an order granting the writ of habeas corpus on behalf of eleven detainees at Guantanamo Bay—Tofiq Nasser Awad al-Bihani, Sharqawi al-Hajj, Sanad al-Kazimi, Suhail Sharabi, Said Nashir, Abdul Rabbani, Ahmed Rabbani, Abdu Latif Nasser, Abdul Razak, Abdul Malik, and Abu Zubaydah—whom, according to the petition, “have all been detained at Guantánamo… [read post]
2 Apr 2018, 2:07 pm
However, the Service found that significant threats to the nene remain, including lack of suitable breeding and flocking habitat, predation by introduced mammals, and increased interactions with human activities. [read post]
29 Mar 2018, 9:00 pm
Food and Agricultural Organization report says that fish provides 6.7 percent of all protein consumed by humans, although that amount is far more in coastal and island communities. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 8:35 am
At its core, it speaks to the management of people and human activity, and the means through which those can be implemented for specific purposes grounded in specific ideologies. [read post]
23 Mar 2018, 5:15 am
A/HRC/37/46 (UN Human Rights Council, Feb. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]- The treatment of migrants is discussed on pp. 8-9.Searching for Solutions: Lessons for Syria (IDMC, March 2018) [text]Turkey: Mass Deportations of Syrians (Human Rights Watch, March 2018) [text]"U.N. [read post]
28 Feb 2018, 1:37 pm
The downlisting of the Eureka Valley dune grass was also based on a reduction in human-caused threats. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 10:34 am
Humanity is facing a hard time of climatic change and habitat destruction. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 10:33 am
Humanity is facing a hard time of climatic change and habitat destruction. [read post]
26 Jan 2018, 5:23 am
New roads provide easier access to remote areas and lead to an increase in hunting, degradation of ecosystems and the loss of habitat, affecting biodiversity negatively. [read post]
