Sentences with phrase «federal migratory bird»

Duke Energy Renewables Inc., a subsidiary of Duke Energy Corp., based in Charlotte, N.C., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Wyoming today to violating the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) in connection with the deaths of protected birds, including golden eagles, at two of the company's wind projects in Wyoming.

HAHF argues that «the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty and the Endangered Species Act negatively implicate TVNR and creates the possibilitity [sic] of legal action against veterinarians engaging in TVNR,» and that «the primary veterinarian medical malpractice carrier will not provide insurance coverage for illegal activies [sic].»

Additionally, the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty and the Endangered Species Act negatively implicate TVNR and creates the possibilitity of legal action against veterinarians engaging in TVNR.

In addition to a veterinary license, he is also a licensed NYS wildlife rehabilitator and holds a federal Migratory Bird rehabilitation license.

Red - tailed hawks are protected under the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

«These provisions do not apply to migratory bird species that are protected under the federal Migratory Birds Convention Act.»

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It's spread by migratory birds, so the federal government monitors wild birds in areas where there could be contact with Asian birds.

Whooping cranes are protected by two federal laws: the Endangered Species Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

Barbara has drafted, consulted on and secured amendments to provincial and federal legislation, including updates to the Criminal Code, the Migratory Bird Act and the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

Wildlife laws exist at the federal and state level that are designed to protect species such as migratory birds, and those listed as endangered or threatened.

The agency enforces Federal wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign and Native American Tribal governments with their conservation efforts.

In a letter sent to the park service Monday, lawyers for New York - based Fund for Animals argued that the plan to drop poison pellets from helicopters over Anacapa, an island off the Ventura County coast, would unintentionally kill migratory birds, a violation of federal law.

A 2010 report by FWS and other federal agencies, in collaboration with such conservation groups as the National Audubon Society and American Bird Conservancy, found that global warming will have an increasingly devastating effect on migratory birds in all habitats.

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 Abird protection laws, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (Eagle ABird Treaty Act (MBTA) and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (Eagle Act).

Although there is no current provision for a federal permit to harm or kill these birds (called a «take permit») under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), ABC suggests that the FWS should consider this option as soon as possible, so that it can be used as an additional tool for proper siting and operation of future wind energy facilities.

Released in April by the California Energy Commission, the Ivanpah Avian and Bat Monitoring Plan Annual Report, required by state and federal agencies and prepared by leading environmental consultants HT Harvey and Associates, concluded that migratory bird mortality would be categorized as low.

In addition, federal officials are aware of other wind energy projects that are being planned that will also take migratory birds in violation of federal law.

The effects listed in these sections relate to fish and fish habitat, aquatic species and migratory birds, and all manner of effects on Federal lands or land in a jurisdiction outside the Province where the proposed project is located.

NAR and others supported the Supreme Court decisions to reject federal agency attempts to assert jurisdiction beyond navigable waters to all waters based on theories like the presence of migratory birds.

The Department of the Interior on Dec. 22 reversed a controversial Obama Administration decision to subject private landowners, including home builders, to federal prosecution under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA).