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Proposed Quarry Puts Ontario’s Turtle Protections to the Test

Enviromental Defense

Ontario’s Endangered Species Act (ESA) is meant to protect and recover species-at-risk and their habitats, but does it work? the quarry proposal should be rejected if the spirit of the law is upheld given that at least 63% and at most 100% of the proposed quarry area is categorized as endangered species habitat.”

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Our 2022 State Legislative Priorities

Washington Nature

Conservancy forester Kyle Smith takes measurements in the old-growth forest at TNC’s Ellsworth Creek Preserve in southwest Washington. Washington’s Conservation Futures program has allowed counties to permanently protect open space, farmland and forests, and to build and maintain parks and trails. But there’s still a lot happening!

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

Senate committee holds hearing for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. California, Arizona, Nevada and the federal government reach agreement to reduce water consumption in the Colorado River basin. A draft of IPBES’ thematic assessment of invasive alien species and their control is open for review. Executive Branch.

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How a Federal Drought Relief Program Left Southern Oregon Parched—and Contributed to the Ongoing Groundwater Crisis in the West

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November 23, 2021. That’s because the region’s ongoing groundwater woes are at least two decades in the making, exacerbated in part by the very federal programs meant to conserve water in the area, The Counter has found. Then came new conservation regulations and litigation that complicated USBR’s water obligations.

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ESA Policy News: October 24, 2022

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Senate considering annual defense policy bill, which includes authorizes funding for tropical forest and coral reef conservation. Coral Reef Task Force and requires the federal government to create a new national coral reef resilience strategy and new coral reef action plans. from 12,549 in 2020 to 11,814 in 2021.

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The Stream, December 21, 2022: In Global Biodiversity Agreement, Freshwater Protection and Restoration Are Prominent

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The world’s eighth-largest lake, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, receives support needed to become an Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area. The United States, which did not attend the conference, announced a similar “30 by 30” conservation plan in January 2021. This Week’s Top Water Stories, Told In Numbers.

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ESA Policy News: November 7, 2022

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This summit will build on the work of the 2021 tribal nations summit, as well as other on-going work to strengthen nation-to-nation relations. USFWS: The agency granted threatened species protections for the Emperor Penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri ) under the Endangered Species Act. 30 and Dec. Scientific Community.

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