The Birders Report

Northern Saw-Whet Owl photo by James D. Thompson ACTION ALERT FROM THE CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY Right now, the Obama administration is accepting comments on a draft policy interpreting the phrase “significant portion of its range” (SPOIR), which specifies that if a species is at risk of extinction in any significant portion of range, it [...]

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Gray Wolf (Canus lupis) photo courtesy of Rocky Mountain Tracking Our environment is under attack by the United States Congress! Current members in the U.S. House of Representatives have cast the most anti-environment votes of any Congress in history. You can read the minority report in its entirety from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce here. The conclusion [...]

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Washington, D.C. — Today, the Obama administration rejected the permit for the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline sought by Canadian oil firm TransCanada, determining that the project was not in the national interest. President Obama listened to the American people and stood up to Big Oil by rejecting a critical permit for the tar [...]

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Photo courtesy of USFWS Conservation officials are offering a reward for information about the person who shot and killed the whooping crane in Jackson County. Officials determined the male bird died from a shotgun wound. Whooping Cranes reached a low of only sixteen birds in North America in the winter of 1941-1942, and numbered under 35 [...]

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The American Bird Conservancy (ABC) petition presents a viable alternative to inadequate, unenforceable voluntary guidelines drafted by the government. (Washington, D.C., December 14, 2011) American Bird Conservancy (ABC), the nation’s leading bird conservation organization, today formally petitioned the U.S. Department of the Interior to protect millions of birds from the negative impacts of wind energy [...]

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