Sentences with phrase «endangered species legislation»

Saving frogs is a good thing, which is why we need better endangered species legislation.

Moreover, they observe, «most countries do not have endangered species legislation of any kind, and if they do, laws are unlikely to be consistent across the 18 nations where the jaguar is currently found.»

Not exact matches

The most that environmentalists have been able to do since then is to beat back efforts to weaken such legislation as the clean air act, the requirement of environmental impact reports, and the endangered species act that were passed at that time.

«Mass Audubon congratulates the legislature on passing important environmental legislation regarding Community Preservation and stopping a repeal of the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act last session,» added Jack Clarke, Mass Audubon's director of public policy and government relations.

We support Representative Stephen Kulik's (D - Worthington) consensus bill (H. 756) that would strengthen our existing endangered species law, and we continue to oppose any legislation that would repeal or weaken it.

At about the same time that the U.S. House of Representatives was readying legislation to combat poaching and wildlife trafficking for President Obama's signature, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) delivered 90 finger - length giant Thai catfish, a critically endangered species, to Shedd Aquarium.

Both leaf scaled and short nosed sea snakes are listed as Critically Endangered under Australia's threatened species legislation, which means they have special protection.

Why do you see a person jumping from issue to issue, first passing President Bush's healthy forests legislation, now working with congressman Pombo on a bill to change Endangered Species Act?

The legislation also includes provisions that would continue efforts to open a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada, prevent the Obama administration from moving ahead with new environmental rules aimed at strengthening protections for small streams and wetlands, and bar adding the sage grouse to the endangered species list.

Forty years ago this month then president Richard M. Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act, a vital piece of legislation that has been called one of the world's most effective environmental laws.

Friends and critics of America's Endangered Species Act are gearing up for an extended battle in Congress over renewal of the controversial legislation.

introduced legislation that would give the states of Arizona and New Mexico, as well as ranchers — all proven hostile to Mexican wolf recovery — the right to dictate the terms of the species» recovery, undermining the scientific standards of the Endangered Specispecies» recovery, undermining the scientific standards of the Endangered SpeciesSpecies Act.

introduced legislation today that would give the states of Arizona and New Mexico, as well as ranchers, the right to dictate the terms of Mexican gray wolf recovery, undermining the scientific standards of the Endangered Species Act.

Ask them to create a timeline showing the history of legislation involving endangered species from 1900 to today.

Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards iSpecies of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards ispecies under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards iSpecies Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards iSpecies Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards iSpecies Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.

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Rather, the real choice is between regulatory chaos and legislation that fixes the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act so that pro-Kyoto litigation groups can not use those statutes for a purpose that Congress never intended — to dictate climate and energy policy for the nation.

The 1970s began with a remarkable pulse of federal legislation aimed at protecting endangered species and restoring the nation's air and waters.

In 1994 LaBudde and ESP spearheaded efforts to expose Asia's illegal black market trade in endangered species which resulted in the U.S. implementation of trade sanctions against Taiwan for illegal commerce in rhino horn and tiger bone, and passage of domestic legislation in China, South Korea and Hong Kong to ban the trade.

That surge helped push through all kinds of legislation — the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act — and spurred the growth of organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund.

The Obama administration has followed suite, choosing instead to pursue Congressional legislation instead of using the Endangered Species Act to battle climate change.

Under the proposed directive, member states would be required to ensure that a range of activities, such as the illegal shipment of waste and unlawful trade in endangered species or in ozone - depleting substances, already prohibited by EU or national legislation are considered criminal offences, when committed intentionally or with serious negligence.

By Jamie MacMaster My suspicions were first aroused in the spring of ’07 when an organization calling itself SOS (Save Ontario's Species) ran Ontario - wide radio ads hailing the McGuinty government's new and improved Endangered Species Act — yet another law, in a long list of legislation, that empowers the government to acquire private land without enduring the inconvenience of paying for it.