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Ontario Government Proposes to Further Gut Endangered Species Rules for Developers

Enviromental Defense

MECP claims that these changes will improve implementation of the legislation, however, this is only true if you think better implementation of species protection legislation involves making it weaker. For example, the Redside Dace and Butternut are just two of many species at risk that would be impacted by the proposed giant Highway 413.

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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. Plant and animal species are the foundation of a healthy ecosystem. Toronto, Ont./ Ecojustice?uses

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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. Habitat loss and degradation threaten the species’ survival and recovery – and beach raking has been identified as a threat to their habitat.

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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. Environmental Defence is a leading Canadian advocacy organization that works with government, industry, and individuals to defend clean water, a safe climate, and healthy communities. Toronto, Ont./

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The Power of Policy

Vermont Law

. : While many law students graduate and become litigators, judges, or an attorney who plays another role in the judicial branch, some law students set their sights on the other two branches of government – the legislative and executive branches. making policy on both sides of the aisle.

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The Dusky Gopher Frog Causes Big Problems for Industrial and Commercial Development in Parts of St. Tammany Parish

The Energy Law Blog

In 2010, under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“the FWS”) designated 6,477 acres in Mississippi and Louisiana as “critical habitat” for the Rana sevosa or the dusky gopher frog. Tammany Parish.

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Dusky Gopher Frog’s Louisiana Critical Habitat Spawns U.S. Supreme Court Writ

The Energy Law Blog

Property modifications, including altering the present timber management practices, could return the land to suitable frog habitat but the landowners do not intent to take these steps and the government concedes it cannot compel them to do so. The Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. 1531 et seq.