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Environmental groups heading to court to protect endangered piping plover population at Ontario beach

Enviromental Defense

Case challenges habitat protection provision under province’s Endangered Species Act. Lindsay Beck, lawyer, Ecojustice said: “The Endangered Species Act plays a critical role in protecting endangered and threatened species and their habitats. Background.

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Appeals court upholds Ontario town’s convictions for damaging piping plover habitat

Enviromental Defense

Ontario Court of Appeals decision upholds vital habitat protection provision under province’s Endangered Species Act. Ecojustice, acting on behalf of Environmental Defence and Ontario Nature, intervened in the case. After a nearly 30-year absence, they returned to Ontario in 2007, including to Sauble Beach.

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The Justice Department Announces Successful Enforcement Action Against Trafficking in Protected Wildlife

Arnold Porter

This movement of animals was part of the reason that city became the epi-center of illegal wildlife trade in the United States, with almost one third of all wildlife seizures occurring in El Paso between 2007 and 2017.[[N: and the Endangered Species Act (ESA).[[N:16 N:16 U.S.C. See How CITES works.]].

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Environmental groups fight to protect endangered piping plover population at popular Ontario beach

Enviromental Defense

Ontario court examines key habitat protection provisions under province’s Endangered Species Act. This case marks the first time the Ontario Court of Appeal will consider the meaning of “damage” to habitat under Section 10 of the ESA, which makes it an offence to damage or destroy an endangered or threatened species’ habitat.

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Ontario Election Issues Guide: Endangered Species, Conservation Authorities, Aggregates & Water Pollution

Enviromental Defense

For the past four years, Ontarians have witnessed an unremitting attack on the many of the laws which protect the province’s natural heritage. . Will your party strengthen Ontario’s Endangered Species Act and restore a science-base approach to species recovery, including mandatory habitat protection?

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

US Fish and Wildlife Service reverses Endangered Species Act rules. In addition, the agency expects to propose an updated rule governing the venting and flaring of methane pollution from onshore oil and gas leases in October but did not estimate when it would finish work on that regulation. Executive Branch.

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Policy News: September 27, 2021

ESA

House passes stop-gap federal government funding measure, fate in the Senate remains unclear. Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider 2019 decision to not list Joshua Trees under the Endangered Species Act. The Trump administration removed gray wolves from the endangered species list in November 2020.

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