Endangered Species Act

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Endangered Species Act

A federal law originally intended to protect endangered species on federal land, but expanded to include protections wherever found, including private property.The existence of a protected species on one's land may prevent development or dramatically increase the expenses.This is not considered a condemnation,so there is no government compensation.

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Marine Mammal Protection Act

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Lawrence, Minister LeBlanc has instructed officials to act as swiftly as possible to update identified critical habitat when emerging issues and environmental changes arise, such as to account for changing population distributions as a result of climate change.

Canada : The Government of Canada protects Species at Risk habitat

and the duty to avoid the adverse modification of critical habitat.

Critical habitat's limited role under the Endangered Species Act and its improper transformation into "recovery" habitat

The critical habitat designation, announced last November, includes large areas of sea ice off Alaska's coast, including places where petroleum companies hope to drill in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.

Alaska Native groups challenge polar bear habitat designation

The designation of critical habitat has been anticipated since 2008 when the whale was formally listed under the ESA and as such as been part of the Company's planning process.

Buccaneer Energy Limited (ASX:BCC) Provide Background And Clarification Regarding Cook Inlet Beluga Whales Habitat

Both cases establish the precedent that under SARA, the federal government is required to identify critical habitat in a recovery strategy to the extent possible based on the "best available information.

SARA's wagging finger: Canada's courts are not allowing the government to shirk its responsibility to protect biodiversity

SARA's requirement to identify and protect critical habitat should not be the only motive for identifying wildlife research needs.

Have you met SARA?

These areas around Glastenbury encompass important headwater streams that provide clean water to nearby communities and large tracts of contiguous land that offer critical habitat for wildlife.

Advocating for wilderness areas

Department of the Interior is required to designate critical habitat.

It's not easy being green: are DoD INRMPS a defensible substitute for critical habitat designation?

The proposed critical habitat, released in September, covers about 4,500 acres of the Angeles National Forest, as well as about 3,000 acres in the San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains.

FOREST SERVICE CLOSES HABITAT SECTION OF TRAIL SHUT FOR STUDY OF FROG THREATS

This story contains a sidelong misrepresentation of the Critical Habitat provisions of the ESA.

From the editor

3824) replaces the controversial critical habitat designation with recovery plans, provides more incentives for voluntary conservation efforts, and provides for the use of the "best available scientific data" on all decisions, among other things.

Endangered species Act rewrite introduced in house

Speaking on behalf of the NAHB, Campos said that Congress should expand landowner incentives under the ESA and provide certainty that Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs) and other voluntary species management programs will be excluded from critical habitat designations.