Sentences with phrase «us bird protection»

Under the leadership (1980 - 1999) of Gerard A. Bertrand, Mass Audubon spearheaded passage of critical land and water protection legislation, while also maintaining focus on local and international bird protection, launching the Coastal Waterbird Program in 1987 and beginning cooperative work with the Belize Audubon Society in 1984, then forming Programme for Belize in 1988.

Dead Neck is owned by Three Bays Preservation and is managed under a conservation restriction for «bird protection... and conservation purposes.»

Britain has already made the use of lead shot over wetland areas illegal but it continues to be used instead of the steel alternative in 70 % of cases, bird protection groups have argued.

Researchers there have developed the award - winning Ornilux Bird Protection Glass.

The Service refused to grant this bird protection in 2016.

While bird protection groups exaggerate the number of songbirds killed by cats, this does occur.

We believe all animals are important, and as humans, we owe both cats and birds protection.

All 35 villages on Nusa Penida island have now signed bird protection laws and villages and Harbour Authorities are working together to fight the illicit trade.

St Cuthbert gave up the monastic order to take a hermetic vow and his early passion for conservation established the world's first bird protection laws.

All sales will support wild - life bird protection.

Even so, as Bryce constantly complains, the Obama administration has yet to prosecute a wind developer under the two main federal bird protection laws, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (Eagle Act).

Update: I posted this blog on Friday morning, Nov. 22, and at the time, no U.S. wind energy company had ever been prosecuted for violating federal bird protection laws.

The main US bird protection association, Audubon, states that while badly sited wind farms can kill a lot of birds, «On balance, Audubon strongly supports wind power»; see Audubon policy statement on wind power.

More about birds around the world: Rare Birds Raise Secret Brood in Birmingham Map of Bird Habitats Threatened by BP Oil Spill Bird Protection Clashes with Bride Prospects in India 17 % of North American Birds Facing Rapid Decline Woodland Birds Losing Out to Farmland Birds as Australian Rivers Dry Up Madagascar Bird Declared Extinct Bird Spotted Just Twice in 139 Years Found Breeding in Northeastern Afghanistan (UPDATED) 7 Weird and Wacky Endangered Birds Peace Could Prove Problematic For Migratory Birds

Tim Spence, a Principal at BBH Design in Raleigh, NC and a LEED - AP, has a unique perspective about bird protection and healthcare facilities.

A legal opinion commissioned by NABU says licenses had been issued without properly applying EU directives on bird protection and other environmental considerations.

Not exact matches

Jennifer Lavers, of Australia's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in the University of Tasmania, and Alexander Bond, of the United Kingdom's Centre for Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, walked two beaches, methodically counting, collecting, and categorizing the garbage.

Also Monday, environmentalists agreed to put on hold another lawsuit over protections for the Gunnison sage grouse, a smaller version of the bird found only in Colorado and Utah.

Also Monday, environmentalists agreed to put on hold another lawsuit over protections for the Gunnison sage grouse, a smaller version of the bird which is found only in Colorado and Utah.

Environmental groups have started a new court battle over protections for an imperiled bird on Western U.S. public lands but called a truce in a separate lawsuit involving the bird's smaller cousin.

Environmental groups have launched a pair of court battles over protections for an imperiled bird on public land in the Western U.S. but called a truce in a third lawsuit involving its smaller cousin.

Interior Department officials said the revisions to the Obama - era plans were aimed at increasing flexibility on public lands where the birds reside — not undoing protections outright.

They figured that since God controlled and made all things, if He allowed birds to nest in His house, then they were under His protection.

The imagery drawn from the Transforming Earth the mustard plant serves as shelter for the birds, ensuring the protection of these creatures of God, and thus promoting life.

Washington (CNN)- The Justice Department sought on Friday to strike a delicate balance between the use of bald eagle feathers by Native American tribes and federal protection of the nation's symbolic bird.

Special emphasis is given to the protection of trees as a habitat for migratory and local bird populations as well as other wildlife.

Special emphasis is given to the protection of big trees as habitat for migratory and local bird populations and other wildlife species — a requirement not present in SAN's current 2010 standard.

The Ardmore distillery is a longtime supporter of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds «Species Champion» Award.

Garden writer Paul Bessey of the Arizona Daily Star reports that rosy - headed house finches regularly decimate his ripening chiltepins, so some netting protection from birds may be necessary when growing this variety.

«Steadfast,» written by Raleigh native Isabella Pirola, is a children's book that tells the story of an oak tree that suffers but remains caring and kind, offering protection to a family of birds until its death.

Mass Audubon is seeking to fill a seasonal Assistant Field Coordinator position to conduct research, monitoring, management, and protection of coastal birds and other natural resources, and to train and supervise staff and volunteers in these activities.

Sponsoring Mass Audubon's Bird - a-thon is a great way for businesses to support environmental protection in Massachusetts while connecting with communities across the state.

In fact, because of citizen science efforts at Mass Audubon, the eastern whip - poor - will, one of the inaugural Birds to Watch, was recently listed as a Species of Special Concern in Massachusetts, affording it more protection.

In designing the project and through the permitting process we have considered possible adverse effects to storm damage protection, marine fisheries, shellfish, and coastal birds.

Results led directly to control activities focusing on protection of habitat for grassland nesting birds.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

Mass Audubon and Three Bays Preservation are dedicated to restoring habitat on the island to continue protection to these vulnerable coastal bird species.

Support the protection of important bird habitat, and be knowledgeable and current with Mass Audubon bird conservation programs.

Mass Audubon President Gary Clayton said the 2017 report, in suggesting how climate change may strongly impact the futures of many birds that breed in the Bay State, «represents another example of the conservation organization's leadership and commitment to species protection and biodiversity.

Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

Mass Audubon is seeking to fill seasonal Field Assistant II positions to conduct research, monitoring, management, and protection of coastal birds and other natural resources.

Mass Audubon is seeking to fill seasonal Field Assistant I positions to conduct research, monitoring, management, and protection of coastal birds and other natural resources.

These were the Sale of Endangered Animals on the Internet (Prohibition) Bill, 2006; [35] Primates As Pets (Prohibition) Bill, 2007 [36] and the Common Birds (Protection) Bill, 2009.

«With a recent government funded study showing low compliance with existing regulations in England on lead shot use, it's not surprising unacceptable numbers of wildfowl are still dying avoidable deaths from lead poisoning,» the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds» director of conservation Martin Harper said.

The Heliconius cydno butterfly from Ecuador enjoys protection from bird attacks if it mingles with a similarly colored species.

The study, by researchers at University of Wisconsin - Madison, the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, focused on a nest - protection program that was based on the logical assumption that endangered birds would reproduce and prosper if people are kept away from their nests.

The authors suggest that there appears to be a beneficial interaction between the alligators and nesting birds, where birds nest above alligators for protection, but chicks that fall from the nest may also provide a food source for the alligators.

Antibodies against the common flu blunt bird flu's effects on mice, but how to enhance the protection in people is unclear

Long - legged wading birds, like herons, egrets, ibises, storks, and spoonbills may choose nesting sites above resident American alligators, likely to take advantage of protection from nest predators such as raccoons and opossums.

Breeding birds that nest above alligators for protection from mammalian predators may also provide a source of food for the alligators living in the Everglades, Florida, according to a study published March 2, 2016 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Lucas Nell from the University of Florida and colleagues.