Wildlife Legal Issues
- Conservation and Reinvestment Act
- Teaming with Wildlife (TWW) is a national campaign to prevent species from becoming endangered and to nurture a new generation of wildlife stewards by securing funding for state-level nongame wildlife conservation and related education and recreation programs. A coalition of over 3,000 organizations and businesses support the need for such funding by officially endorsing Teaming with Wildlife.
- BIRDNET
- BIRDNET provides information about ornithology, the scientific study of birds. The site is a service of the Ornithological Council, a public information organization involving ten North American professional ornithological societies. Also are updates on legislature, regulation, and policy matters affecting birds.
- TowerKill.com
- People began documenting bird kills at tall communications towers in North America during the late 1940s - such towers were then being constructed on the continent to broadcast the emerging television medium. Thousands of migrant songbirds killed in a night at a single 1000 foot high television tower was news to ornithologists. Though birdkills at lighthouses had been noted for centuries, it is unlikely that anyone anticipated the staggering number of songbirds that would be killed at tall TV towers which were lighted at night for aviation safety. Like the lighthouses, on foggy or low cloud ceiling nights, migrating birds appeared to become attracted to the lights of the towers and mill about them for lack of stronger navigational cues. The large mortality at these towers was chiefly attributed to collisions with the many relatively invisible guy wires used to support the towers. Though seen as tragic, these large kills appeared to be relatively rare, and there is not much evidence that anyone thought songbirds were declining - they seemed abundant. Nonetheless, the kills were appalling to bird lovers and towerkill studies began at a number of tall towers across the continent. Most ornithologists and a small portion of the public became aware of the periodic bird kills. In the 1960s and 1970s, the shock over songbird towerkills appears to have begun transformation into mostly an attitude of acceptance, and the notion of salvaging kills for scientific study may have diffused concern over the matter. For whatever reason, a decline in the number of towerkill studies and attention to the issue occurred during the 1980s and 1990s. Indeed, there are only a few studies on the continent that have been ongoing for more than twenty years, and there are only a handful of studies which have attempted to understand the mechanism of the towerkills.
- FLAP: The Fatal Lights Awareness Program
- Working To Preserve The Lives Of Migratory Birds In Urban Areas
- Digest of Federal Resource Laws of Interest to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Newly updated in 1999, the Digest of Federal Resource Laws is a comprehensive listing and description of federal authorities under which the Fish and Wildlife Service functions; including Administrative Laws, Treaties, Executive Orders, Interstate Compacts and Memoranda of Agreement.
- Center for Wildlife Law
- The Center for Wildlife Law is the only national center dedicated to education, research and analysis of state, national and international wildlife laws. Established at the Institute of Public Law, University of New Mexico School of Law in 1990, the Center's mission is to raise the level of understanding and discussion about wildlife issues through interdisciplinary education, training, analysis and information on wildlife law and policy issues.
- Migratory Bird Management, Fish and Wildlife Service
- The Fish and Wildlife Service is the lead Federal agency for managing and conserving migratory birds in the United States. The Office of Migratory Bird Management is charged with carrying out the Service's responsibilities, which it does in concert with a host of participating partners, both domestic and foreign. The Web pages that follow contain a tantalizing potpourri of useful and exciting information on migratory birds; as appropriate, we also include links to sites maintained by others. Much like the ebb and flow of migratory bird populations, this site will be dynamic. So stay tuned!
- Animal Legal Defense Fund
- Founded in 1979, ALDF is the country's leading animal rights law organization working nationally to defend animals from abuse and exploitation. ALDF's network of over 750 attorneys is dedicated to protecting and promoting animal rights. Over the past 20 years, we've won precedent-setting victories for animals on every front -- in research laboratories, on farms, in the wild and for companion animals.