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AP News Radio
State and US officials tout spending to plug 'orphan wells'
"State and federal officials are touting new spending to plug what are called orphan wells. There are an estimated 2 million unplugged oil wells abandoned by the companies that drill them. They are around wildlife and wetlands. This is one of a kind. You know, we've got a couple of places several places in Louisiana that's like that. They're jewels. And we've got to protect those. Jack Monta said his secretary of Louisiana's wildlife and fisheries. Jimmy Laurent with the fish and wildlife service says they need upkeep. Over time that infrastructure will start to deteriorate. And ultimately leak, especially in this environment. Leak cancer causing chemicals and could emit methane. The owners of the wells can't be found. The thing that we've missed though in the past is not holding these companies accountable when they come in to leave your property the way they took it. The Biden administration has included orphan well cleanup in the big infrastructure Bill. I'm Ed Donahue
This Week In Google
"wildlife service" Discussed on This Week In Google
"We can't stick the little high pitch thing. No, but I mean, just having a cat would be. I know if I could import a cat, it would totally kill this Robin, because it's very predictable. It doesn't have to kill it, but it would certainly scare it off. Well, they liked it. No, no. I think it needs to be this bird. Yeah, the bird's not going to air the cat's not going to scare it off. The cat is good. Like this bird is a very smart here. Hulk. Once again, we got the Stacey bird invitation. I had that was the cat invitation. I had somebody how the bird invitation to the catnip are very similar. Very similar. No. That's audio. You really need the visual. Punk is the visuals very punk. Okay. I had somebody call the radio show photographer. He calls himself doctor Bernie's a bird lover and he said, yeah, those windmills are killing birds like right and left. He said, you ever go to a president Trump's website, you see the bald eagle that got beheaded by a wind turbine, that's my picture. And actually, really, is that so I looked it up. According to the federal wildlife service, the top threat to birds is collision with building glass. 600 million birds die every year colliding with building glass, then electrical lines, vehicles, wind turbines is 234,000. What is that? 6 orders of magnitude less. And cats are 2.4 billion. So I should have, if I had had the presence of mine, I could have said, you know, I agree. Let's get rid of wind turbines. And while we're at it, let's get a real buildings and cats because that's the real threat. Anyway, a cat would work, but our cats are too fat and lazy to catch birds, but they will sit in the window and look and glower. Do they make the sounds do they try to do their orientations? Which are far better than Stacy's I might add. Yeah, they do little. Yeah, they do
Dennis Prager Podcasts
"wildlife service" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"The following hour is dedicated to a truly foolish statement. I wish I had some of the examples right in front of me, but I don't. But every one of you has heard some politician and it's usually a politician who says, or maybe some columnist, although I think it's more politicians. Americans have much more in common. Than that which divides them. Or a very variant of that or variation, if you will, is it's the politicians who differ with one another. The average American, the average Americans, they don't really differ that much from their fellow Americans. Or Barack Obama's famous line, there's no blue America or red America just the United States of America. And people cheer. Anyway, he could have said that he'll fundamentally transform the United States of American people with chairs, cheer. We are 5. Oh, I guess he did. Fundamentally transforming the United States of America. Yes. Nice middle class American whites cheering the idea fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
Seek Outside Podcast
"wildlife service" Discussed on Seek Outside Podcast
"They also give considerations that people should take when they're handling birds, cleaning birds, things like don't smoke while you're out bird hunting. Don't drink water, clean where rubber gloves when you're cleaning and things like that. But they still say that the risk to humans is low. There's only been one known infection, and that was a poultry worker. Who recovered from their from contracting even influenza. So they didn't die. And so that's what I would say there, but basically what's happening is there's a growing list of species this time of 2021 to now that the distribution of the virus has grown since the 2000 1415 outbreak and the list of species is growing as well. But the U.S. fish and wildlife service who they're the ones whose job it is to manage and regulate, waterfall populations, they have not released any concerns yet for continental waterfowl populations. Primarily because you start with such a huge population. And honestly, death in waterfall populations, I should say it's normal. I think certain listeners may have experiences with avian botulism outbreaks or avian cholera outbreaks. Those outbreaks can claim tens or hundreds of thousands of birds in a given year. And so from everything that I've been told and the experts that I've talked to, they have yet to express any concerns for the wild bird populations. Now they do have some concerns for more for smaller population bird species. I've heard some concerns over some various turn species or species of gannets, you know, which those are not hunted, but eagles are succumbing to bird flu at a very high clip. I haven't heard any concerns about their population, but that's a conspicuous bird that commonly feeds on waterfowl. So you're seeing it pop up, you know, I've done three podcasts for delta on this topic and just keep staying on top of it. But yeah, you do see lots of chatter out there in social media. We receive quite a few questions about people with dead or dying birds. And what we tell people is don't touch it, you know? If you see it, leave it, but kind of the whole see something say something, contact your state biologist, your federal biologist and report it. They may want to test it. They may not. But it's something that everyone is definitely keeping an eye on. And from the last conversation I had, it's probably not going to be over any time soon. And so we're probably going to be dealing with this for a little while.
Seek Outside Podcast
"wildlife service" Discussed on Seek Outside Podcast
"All these changes and not to mention the latest duck number study that probably the national national fish and wildlife service put out showed that duck numbers just in general are down. This year. And I'm not sure what exactly how that ties into the ten, 20, 30 year ebbs and flows of duck populations. But you hear that the duck hunting is changing. So I think that having hunter recruitment programs like that are super important. The thing that I do wonder about it and I wonder if you guys have some way to address this, but is the whole private public land situation. Obviously, a lot of duck hunting and goose hunting takes place on private land. Sag fields, it's repairing areas in kind of more close to cities, obviously geese are taken over golf courses now. Do you guys have any plans in place to kind of you guys have leases or anything that these people can go to? Or are you guys mostly operating on public land or what's the strategy there? Yeah, I guess on the front one, those are some great statements you made there. I'll just choose to support some of them because I think you said some good things there. I guess the first part is delta we don't do hunting as a job, right? So we don't take people hunting necessarily other than our chapters on the recruitment hunts. But one interesting thing that I would point out is for waterfall production, about 90% of the ducks on this continent come from private land. Not public land, but you're right, though, when you flip it around, I think the overwhelming majority of hunting occurs on private ground, not to the public ground, right? So it's interesting. So there's so much of what we rely on is the private ground for both production and hunting access. But I would say that through urbanization and just certain areas being close to hunting, I would say that, yes, I would say that there has been a decline in available areas to hunt. And one of the things that pops up and survey after survey after survey that either delta conducts or someone else conducts a human dimensions, hunting focused study is one of the top reasons that people are struggling to continue hunting or leave
AP News Radio
US bat species devastated by fungus now listed as endangered
"A bat species devastated by a fungal disease has joined the endangered species list. The northern long eared bat was classified as threatened in 2015, but the U.S. fish and wildlife service has now declared it an endangered species driven to the brink of extinction by white nose syndrome, a fungal disease that has killed millions of bats among a dozen species attacking their wings, muscles, and ears. It causes bats to come out of hibernation too early. If you live on bob's beetles and other insects, that's not good for your survival. White nose syndrome has spread across nearly 80% of the bast geographical range in 37 states and Canada. Fish and wildlife officials say they will work with timber companies and landowners to protect trees where bats nest and seek cooperation from the wind energy industry to reduce bat strikes by wind turbines. I'm Jennifer King
AP News Radio
Sparkling fish, murky methods: the global aquarium trade
"Millions of saltwater fish are caught in Indonesia and other countries every year to fill aquariums around the world There are fears delicate marine ecosystems are being damaged by illegal practices marine biology professor Andrew Ryan at roger Williams university says that includes using cyanide The fish is caught with cyanide or in an area that's prohibited then the fish would be illegal But it's not possible for the consumer to really know which fish is which because they don't have a tag like your clothes have on them to tell you where they come from Ryan points out most of the fish coming into the U.S. are legally acquired Carlos pages with the fish and wildlife service The onus is on the importer The importer is the one that needs to pick the exporter that is doing the doing exporting animals correctly Monitoring more than 34,000 miles of the Indonesian coastline is difficult Indonesian officials say they will arrest anyone who implements destructive fishing I'm Ed Donahue
Seek Outside Podcast
"wildlife service" Discussed on Seek Outside Podcast
"Not the position of the wildlife society today, but I'm just questioning this as a scientist and a hunter, what sense does it make to allow hunters to shoot doves over water and then go back to the same pond and make them use steel as she waterfowl? Are you achieving the objective for waterfowl populations and non toxic shots? So it begs the question and there's not a lot of science on that. Not a lot of science yet. Yeah, so not on that cumulative impact of multiple seasons and different loads. That's where I was going. Okay. This is a big debate now on. Expansion and whether the fish and wildlife service should mandate non toxic and such. That's a big debate on going to. So there's basically two kinds of hunting that you can still hunt with lead. Big game and upland. And small thank you. Small game, yeah, small game rabbits and stuff like that. If you had to choose one, just in terms of environmental efficacy and I guess ethics to where one you only could choose one and that would be the bigger impact switching and banning lead would it be big game or would it be like small game? We'll lump small game and upload. Yeah, is that just because there's more animals that are end up eating the expelled carcasses of well, it's just the sheer volume of lead that's flung into the air. It doves in particular. I mean, I remember what the average is, my average is pretty good because I shoot pretty well. But I think it's like a ten or 12 shells per dove killed on I can't remember what it is. But I think if you think about all the pheasant owners all the upland game hunters are small upland bird hunters and small game hunters for rabbits and such the amount of this this year volume in the environment. That's where I would go. Yeah. With big game, I mean, I shoot two or three rounds at most a year. If I only have one tag, usually it's one round. So it's concentrated in that one animal. Obviously multiplied by multiple honors, but yeah, I would go with the up one. So why haven't they just straight up banned? Because bismuth and copper is, I feel like for upland, it's becoming a lot more popular. Why haven't they just straight up banned lead? Well, there's opposition to it. Obviously, again, largely from shooting sports, but also others too. And there's arguments there, I suppose, but certainly certainly an economic factor.
The MeatEater Podcast
"wildlife service" Discussed on The MeatEater Podcast
"One she had four cubs that she basically, they're raised to adulthood. They would be adults. She's going to get rid of them this year. So two years old, I'm guessing. And one of the cubs, a male was killed by fish and game officials for 13 recorded conflicts. Human bear conflicts. And they finally had to kill that bear to keep people safe, basically. Are people having a total connection about it? incredibly unfortunate photographer author and bare advocate Tom mangelsen said the latest incident. I'm sure down there, but that's the reality. I think a lot of people don't realize how many grizzlies across the western United States end up being, you know, they like to say euthanized by fish and game officials. I mean, it's probably, I have no idea it dozens and dozens of bears end up getting shot by fish and game officials. So I'm sure people are working over a course of time. A bunch of year. Yep. And this one seems like it was just bound to happen. Fish and game officials, fish and wildlife service officials say they continue to ask for the help of residents and visitors to secure attractants around homes, rental properties and businesses, the actions of those living and visiting bear visiting grizzly bear country remain vital. So it's like, you know, typical stuff. It's a fed bear is a dead bear kind of thing. Moving on down to someone wrote a needed advice on an ethics issue. This is the thorn. This is a thorny one. Because it becomes like, it's like one of those places where legal and legality and morality collide. Do you feel like it's done? He's the answer for you. No, it's not easy. When I read this, I thought maybe for some people it would be. Well, like I said, it's morality and legality. And I'll get it. I'll get into I'll get into it a little bit.
WABE 90.1 FM
"wildlife service" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"And the distinctive characters trying to help Dan Chapman is a longtime reporter who's now a writer for the U.S. fish and wildlife service and his book is called a road running southward WAB environment editor Molly Samuel caught up with him to talk about the book In your book you're following the path of John Muir who went on to become one of the founders of the Sierra club He was a very famous environmentalist But he explored the south before he got famous It was just after the Civil War So who was this guy who was traipsing around here John Muir at the time he was really a nobody He had kicked about a lot not really had steady jobs The south after the war was really beaten down and people were starving and there was no industry And so he would be walking along picking up flowers and weeds and grasses and putting him in his stamp press and then sending him back to his brother in Wisconsin and people just thought that was the oddest thing They didn't know what to make of this guy here And I think I would probably have agreed And he ends up being this incredibly influential environmentalist How did his trip through here help shape that Throughout his trip here he just had sort of these epiphanies and probably the most interesting one is when he spent 5 or 6 nights in bonaventure cemetery in Savannah He was out of money He was starving He might have been in the early stages of malaria because he got very sick soon thereafter But when he was there in the cemetery where the dead lived his whole philosophy about life and man's relationship to life and nature crystallized For example here's this little ant here Here's this little plant here People think it's useless It's not useless Everything has relationship in nature to something else and therefore to us humans He also helped reprehensible views right He writes racist things about black people and indigenous people That last year that then executive director of the Sierra club apologized how did you navigate in your book that that's also who John Muir was It wasn't easy You know as I read his book it's like you know it doesn't take long for him to start drop and you know nasty words and calling people nasty names and everything And I just floored me I stopped and I'm like well you know holy this guy was a real cretin And then of course it made me think can I really write a book The book isn't about him It's not a biography about him but he obviously plays a central role in the book And it made me think well should I really be shining a light on this guy Who I call a racist and he was a racist His walk was about a 150.
Native America Calling
"wildlife service" Discussed on Native America Calling
"Contaminants that they can be exposed themselves to that can be collisions. These guys are when they're first go out. They're not strong flyers. They're very susceptible. And that's a period of time when they're trying to land on or off, say, a power pole, you know, they're susceptible to collusion. Of course, there's also the possibility of electrocution from power lines. As I said, various contaminants, of course, the biggest one that you hear about is the lead poisoning problem, which is a super, super significant. In addition to that, it probably one of the biggest threats and challenges is overcoming that personality. They are they are a species that learns on the wing. They're not genetically pre programmed like some birds like peregrines and such. And so in that learning process, there's a lot of opportunity for them to be threatened. And like I said, they're very curious birds, so they're often find themselves in situations that put themselves in situations where harm might occur. So it's a difficult challenge and when people ask me what can I hope for California corner release in the watts back to the wild? I would say that I really hope it behaves. Well, I like how you mentioned it. What are the challenges that humans that can't fly trying to be parents of condors? Classic, for sure. And listeners, both of our guests have mentioned lead poisoning as being a huge risk to condors and other Birds of Prey. We actually did a show about lead poisoning specifically lead ammunition. That show aired on March 8th. So if you're interested in learning more about that topic, I'd encourage you to check out our native America calling archives and listen to a recording of that show really, really enlightening conversation we did on that day. And Robert, what about wind turbines? Are those a big risk for condors as well? Yeah, that's when I was working with the program initially the big threat was power lines. Collisions and electrocutions and then and then in the mid 80s and there was more than several proposals for when power and the turbines to step generated that power. And yet, that's a significant threat to California condors because condors, as was mentioned earlier in the show, you know, the reason that they can get around as well as they do is that they learn the winds in their environment, whether they're whether it's a warm updraft or a deflection wind. Actually over time, they will learn these winds and they will actually utilize them like highways, repeatedly, to go in and out of their environment. And as a result, it's been very little energy for a bird, you know, that can be as large as a California condor. Unfortunately, those areas that produce those winds and are attractive to California condors are attractive to people that want to construct wind turbines for the very same reasons the wind. So yes, they are a threat. Well, it's really fascinating that they use the winds as highways as you mentioned. And Robert, how did the condor originally become endangered? You know, it was a combination of reasons. I mean, there was wanton shooting. You know, for some reason or another, you know, people just couldn't resist shooting the condor just because it was a large bird. And then of course there was secondary poisoning. You know, there was a lot of poisons utilized to kill things from everything from roads to coyotes and of course condors would come down. And find those carcasses and feed on them and be poisoned. There was contaminants. So lesser degree, contaminants like the DDT that it affected their ability to reproduce, they caused eggshells to thin and as a process and unfortunately they would crush before they could hatch and there was actually a collectors back in the 1800s, early 1900s, a collecting was a big hobby, and condor eggs could go for quite a bit of money. So there was it was something that's crazy, is that California condors. And so, and of course, led us again, we get back to lead and that was affecting condors even then, not to the extent that it's now, but it was also that there was a combination of reasons that the California condo were extinct. One of the things that people don't often talk about is until the 1900s, there were no wildlife laws that protected California condors. So people could take them and not be breaking the law. And so there was no there was no laws there to help protect them from the type of take that I was just talking about. So the timeline here a lot of this started in the 1800s it sounds like and this law when did that law went to actually be when the condor actually become a protected bird, then about what was the time frame then? Okay, well, the Lacey act of 1900 was the first law to address or protected wildlife species. After that, you had the migratory treaty act of 19 18 and then after that we had all we had to endangered species. Well, no, we had the bald eagle and golden eagle act, and then of course we had the endangered species act. All of which protected the California condor in one aspect or another. But it was going to tell tonight hundreds that we actually had a law on the book. So there was a large period of time in 1800s where they, along with other birds, were exploited. Yeah, really, really tragic. Robert, you also supply tribes with condor feathers upon request, right? It's part of the repository. How does that work? Yes, we do. I now direct the liberty wildlife not equal feather repository. Here in Phoenix Arizona at this time we're the only organization that permitted by the U.S. wildlife service to accept hold and distribute feathers to Native Americans. And by the non eagle feathers, the fish and wildlife service operates the feather, the eagle fed the repository and provides Native Americans eagle feathers both bald eagle and golden. You go, however, we provide Native Americans with the other 900 plus species of birds that exist in the United States. And one of those are California condor feathers and so we regularly receive applications from Native Americans for condor feathers, fill them and send them out. The feathers that we send out, we receive some various permitted sources. U.S. fish and wildlife service is probably the biggest some of the zoos that have California condors provide us with feathers and so we're able to take those feathers and turn around and to a permit process that's a similar to the eagle repository provide a Native Americans where the illegal and a free.
TED Talks Daily
"wildlife service" Discussed on TED Talks Daily
"Photographs brought in by almost 9000 citizen scientists 200 plus conservation and science projects and one very intelligent agent from social media that together that is now the foundation for the IUCN red list entry. For the species, providing not only data for the global population size, but determining its conservation status and changing it from vulnerable to endangered and the population trend from stable to decreasing not because the species are doing any worse. But because when our no better, we can make better decisions, we can create better policy. We can put the right resources to support it. We have wild books for 53 species from marine to terrestrial spanning the entire globe and growing. The technology in wildburg was also used for the first ever full senses of the entire species, the endangered gravity zebra, using photographs from ordinary people. Just taking pictures for two days. For the first time, in January 2016, hundreds of people were driving around Kenya, the country containing 95% of this endangered species. From rangers and school kids to tourists with telephoto cameras, they took more than 40,000 images in the machine learning technology of well book identified all the animals providing the most accurate count of the species. So much so that Kenya wildlife service said this, how we're going to track the species from now on, and do this every two years with known as the great grave is rally. And so we repeated it in 2018 with more than thousand people and also in 2020. And that data became the basis for the IUCN red list entry for the gravy zebra, as well as for the conservation policy, the endangered species management for Kenya wildlife service. Artificial intelligence democratizes science. It connects people, bringing together the pixels of individual cameras into the global view of biodiversity. AI helps create conservation policy, science, and engage people at large scale and high resolution, and it takes the incredible team of wild me the nonprofit home of wild book as well as thousands of people all over the world who take pictures, annotate them and make them ready for AI, create technology and use it for conservation as well as all the people who work out there in the.
No Such Thing As A Fish
"wildlife service" Discussed on No Such Thing As A Fish
"Red cap which looks a bit like the red hot sworn by british soldiers during the american revolutionary war and rock tripe like an ooh try ended and things one that lives inside iraq because there there are like what are they. They're like endo litho or something like in the live literally inside raw which is incredible is outside iraq but underneath a rock in cave yet neither correct out says i'm good. Looks like troy. Looks like two out of three. I also was gathered by george washington's troops supposedly into soup at valley forge during the winter. Seventeen seventy seven. So that's they ate it like tripe ball so it looks a bit like try. That's pretty bad winter as well. We didn't have to do what is tried to even worse than trite. There isn't like could rock gnome lake and as well and this is endangered unknowns to know where it is because the us fish and wildlife service said they had an option to label is location as critical habitat. This is is only found in georgia in the carolinas and tennessee in the mountains and if you something critical habitat that means people know where it is soon publish it and then you get these collectors who overenthusiastic go nicot. So they kept super-secret sweetly the person who is in charge of guardians. Location was a national parks botanist school janet rock com whereas in georgia and into giving you any further details thinking. I could do with an ob quite soon. Stop the podcast. Hello everybody we ask for today by express. Vpn yes express. Vpn is the service that helps you to secure your own line activities in such a way that your information can't be shared to lots of different parties. Who might start advertising at you. Just because you happen to gould something about ladies underwear. Yep not saying. You definitely have done that. I mean i have right okay. We all dance definitely done that. But maybe all of you haven't but there's probably something that you don't necessarily want being out and being sold and generally is just a good idea to keep your searches secure so when you go online without a vpn then. Internet service providers can literally see every single website that you visit and then they can sell the information you have expressed vpn. They can't do any of.
Native America Calling
Wisconsin Sets 300-Wolf Limit After Runaway Spring Hunt
"A policy-setting board for wisconsin department of natural resources approved a wolf heart. Evista quota three hundred wolves for the states fall. Wolf hunts wisconsin tribes oppose and have called on the us fish and wildlife service to reconsider its decision to remove federal protections for the animal daniel creating reports the board's vote goes against the wisconsin. Dnr's recommendation to set the harvest at one hundred thirty wolves state. Wildlife managers supported a conservative harvest due to uncertainty over the populations response to the february wolf hunt state licensed hunters harvested nearly double their allotted quota killing two hundred eighteen wolves and less than seventy two hours. John johnson senior is president of the lack of flambeau band of lake superior chippewa. He told the board that tribes view the wolf. As a brother adding their fates are intertwined. Six people lived in existence with wolves for longer than europeans walk. North america the main gun. We know respect and understand seems to be a different animal than the wolf that so many others despise johnson also chairs the voigt intertribal task force which represents a jib way tribes. The task force has called on the us. Fish and wildlife service to reconsider the wolf's delisting due to wisconsin systemic failures to manage wolves and prevent over harvest for national native news. I'm daniel catering
As It Happens from CBC Radio
"wildlife service" Discussed on As It Happens from CBC Radio
"The world's tallest penguin could look like and it comes as the us fish and wildlife service. This week proposed that the emperor penguin be listed as threatened under the endangered species act. Philip traffic is one of the paper's authors and the head of conservation biology at the british antarctic survey. We reached him in cambridge england. Phillip i understand. You've been to antarctica about twenty times and for those of us who have not had that opportunity. I'm wondering if you can describe to us what it's like to be there with all of the emperor penguins for me. It's an absolutely magical experience so try and imagine if you had snow covered rocky mountains and you chop the tops off and put them in the ocean so the mansions just come straight out of the ocean but covered in snow and then you've got frozen seawater sea ice right up to the edge of the mansions have penguin colonies and penguin colonies. Actually on the ice you can hear the chicks calling the adults calling. An underneath the sale is you can actually hear weddell seals cooling with acoustic signals from submarines. It's just a magical environment. You describe it as magical and keeping that in mind. How do you feel when you through your work. You realize that these penguins are in some trouble. I find it hard. Breaking rarely mankind's known about the antarctic for about two hundred years and it's only really in the twentieth century that greenhouse gas emissions of increased sufficiently. That we are not threatening them and i find that Really really sad that we could lose emperor penguins which for me of the icon antarctic. Can you give us some of the key numbers in your paper..
As It Happens from CBC Radio
"wildlife service" Discussed on As It Happens from CBC Radio
"Year's gathering did dream team. The canadian women's soccer squad is coming home with gold after a nail biting finish and former team member diana. Matheson says their long awaited. Victory is a huge win for the future of the sport. No laughing matter. An australian comedian tells us she believes in the necessity of lockdowns. But that won't necessarily stop her. From reaching her breaking point as victoria enters its sixth amperage state the us fish and wildlife service says emperor. Penguins should be listed as threatened but new research looking at the birds. Future tells us that may be an understatement..
American Birding Podcast
"wildlife service" Discussed on American Birding Podcast
"And so the chances that a few non catchers this mosquito news trainable backyard much higher than encountering another while now and she'll have in viable eggs and the population. Mosquitoes will pie crust. No i mean this. Is this technology this whatever. This method has been used successfully across many areas in the world to treat human diseases to to control ios that transmit thing a and other human diseases. We not can work. The difference here is doing this species of mosquito that did not before imaging while conservation areas not urban areas. But i still think that those are easily overcome hurdles. What everyone needs to understand that this is a very expensive technology immigrant any everyone. Yeah and the price. I heard it could be seventy million dollars year. Well i mean when you're thinking in terms of you know. Us fish and wildlife service fitting the bill for that. That's a relatively small percentage. I mean it feels like it's totally worth it. But of course i'm i'm one hundred percent biased. In that interpretation. I was young on with you and garments will stay Federal across from the nation do fund innate. Assisi's conservation was later that day..
America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
"wildlife service" Discussed on America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
"Yeah we began to watch this section of the border and its wildlife community out of the imminent threat of border wall construction and because construction has approached our study area from both the east and the west but not actually cut it off in the middle. We now find ourselves watching one of the last remaining passable wildlife quarters in southeast arizona. How does this study work. Walk me through a typical day. In the field we haven't array of fifty eight cameras that are each spread to kilometers. Apart our field crew goes out and visit about eight cameras in a single day. We go and make sure that the camera hasn't been moved. We have a lot of cattle on this range. Land that will bump the cameras and move them and be replaced batteries and collect the memory cards from the cameras and put new ones once. We have those memory cards in hand that is like gold and we rushed them back to look and see what sort of animals have been popping up on our cameras. And we count the number of detections. We have of each species over time. Okay powell with that information relates to like you. Now have this data. How are you going to use it just beyond looking at seeing. What's showing up. How's it useful to you. Aside from just knowing the diversity of the community we also want to know what are some of the trends voting time and space. So what kind of animals are we seeing. Where and when did he change. And why do we see those for instance. So he's not just about it can be about climate we can also be about photography can also be about human activity for example right and all. Those things are important because in this particular area now that we are just this is the bottle or the the funnel were most of the species can actually move through is really putting that we can understand more about their behavior in about their their patterns. So that would that can help us. Inform conservation efforts in the future on both sides of the border right. This is also something that will help mexican authorities and mexican profits to improve their management so understanding the in. Why are we seeing those species at that moment in that particular place. It's really important in. That's one of the reasons why we been doing budgeting service for example around our cameras both from space using satellite imagery but also on the ground so that we know exactly what canete habitat. How much of rock or bare ground or we seen an all dad helps us muddle the texture of species in different at different time points in different places. Okay so that's great. You can out what species are coming to the border wall but does this data and actually having this footage trigger any legal mechanism. So like oh. Here's an endangered species to someone like the us fish and wildlife service. Are they interested in information. Are you sharing these policy. Triggers that factor into what. You're doing well. were interested. Certainly to understand if they're threaten and endangered species in this area we certainly know that this is designated habitat for jaguar. Where we're standing yawkey spraying is a place where there are also a lot in the past unfortunately because of the real i d act that was established in twenty five. We have a massive problem. That's all there are tremendous number of federal laws and statutes totaling eighty four different laws and statutes that have been waived because of that the federal laws including the environmental protection laws. Do not apply here at the border. So even though we might find detections of species that should weren't protection. There is not currently illegal mechanism for that to stop construction. Is there anything.
Scuba Shack Radio
Wet Notes - 7-4-21
"This is wet notes here on scuba shock radio for sunday july fourth two thousand and twenty one first up today i wanna talk about re fest two thousand and twenty one this october. The reef environmental educational foundation will again be holding refenced from thursday october fourteenth to sunday october. Seventeenth in key largo. That's four days of some great activity. The festivities kickoff on thursday. And one o'clock. You can then get a couple of days of diving in on friday and saturday morning with a two tank dive from either key divers amaury dive resort or essence. Those charters run about ninety dollars and they go out at eight am. If you wanna do a kayak tour you could also do that. For sixty dollars with florida bay outfitters. There are seven afternoon workshops and seminars and activities at john pennekamp park the coral reef restoration foundation. The history of diving museum and the florida keys. Wild bird sanctuary. Wow this sounds like a great event. Unfortunately i won't be able to make it down due to a family obligation but this sounds really good. Be sure to check out repressed. That's reef fest. Two thousand twenty one on their website. Well who watches the tv. Show curse of oak island. I think matt has watched every episode. And i think they're still searching for treasure but i came across an interesting article about one of the guys on the show. I guess tony sampson had a strange situation happen about a year ago tony's frequently on the show and he runs a tour company called salty door. Salty dog tours. Well he was taking some tourists out when one of his guests hat blew off so quickly turned the boat around to fetch the hat. And that's when he spotted something else a voter in the water. Apparently the boater was on his maiden voyage with this new boat when it capsized and he couldn't get to his life jacket because it was tied to the boats seat ono so tony fortunately rescued the voter in what is called the oak island triangle triangle. I guess the boat subsequently washed up on oak island now at least those guys found something there about a year ago. Olympus announced that they were getting out of the digital imaging business and that they would not be making cameras any longer and that would have been a shame if these Tech this technology went by the wayside. I really liked my Olympus t g six. well don't worry. A new company named 'em digital solutions is producing the old olympics. Cameras binoculars audio gear. They took over in january. Two thousand twenty one. Their website is get olympus dot com. Now if you want to know more about the company checkout oem dash digital solutions dot com. This company is based out of tokyo. And it's led by sha guinea saga motto all digital solutions employees about two thousand people with evaluation of twenty seven billion yen or about three hundred and thirty three million. Us dollars the oem comes from the nineteen seventies oem solutions that they put in place to make cameras smaller more rugged and quieter. This is great news especially for us olympus fans. Here's some sobering news out of florida. The manatees are under stress as of june fourth. This year. Seven hundred and eighty two manatees have died in two thousand twenty one alone and that's a one hundred and fifty one percent increase from the three hundred and thirty one that died during the same period last year to put this in perspective. The record number of deaths for manatees in a year is eight hundred. Twenty one or eight hundred and twenty four and that was in two thousand eighteen. This increase is so dramatic that representative vern buchanan from florida wrote a letter to the us fish and wildlife services to change their status from threatened to endanger and that's the highest level of protection here in the us. The florida manatee used to be on the endangered list until two thousand and seventeen when their numbers rose. Above six thousand six hundred they now estimate a census of about seventy five hundred but as we can see that number is going in the wrong direction. Now what's the cause food availability. The seagrass is being killed off by oversaturation of nutrients and the manatees simply. Starve to death. Not sure how a change in status will solve the sad scenario but we need to start someplace. Well it's summer. And i know that a lot of people like to catch up on summer reading while they're on vacation we'll scuba diving. Magazine just published a list of books that you might consider in their armchair adventure section. A couple of book stood out. One of them was in oceans deep courage innovation and adventure beneath the waves. And that's written by bill steve. And it's a history of our underwater presence. He covers submarines saturation diving and recreational gear. Bill also goes into the impacts of aro vs versus in-person exploration. You can pick up this book in ocean deep for about fifteen dollars in paperback. Now the second book is exploration deep ocean the first descent to the bottom of all five of the world's oceans and it's written by josh young. The book covers the exploits of victor scovill and his team on their history-making mission. You can find this book in hardcover for a little over twenty one dollars time to kick back with some good summer reading and finally here on wet note if you're a collector of vintage gear or want to start mark your calendar for the vintage scandal auction on july seventeenth. The auction is run by the nation's attic and you can register at live. Auctioneers dot com now. The auction starts at ten. Am central standard time. You can go to the site now and take a peek at all the cool stuff you can also register embiid early. The first part of the auction folks who focuses on vintage scuba gear from the nineteen forties to the nineteen seventies things like regulators knives mask cetera. Then it switches to maritime artifacts and closes out with the really expensive stuff. Those classic military commercial hardhats. I missed the last one. Because i was out diving. But we'll definitely try to tune into this next one get set up early and register. It moves pretty quickly when when the auction goes off. And don't miss out on that special piece of scuba history. Well that's it for wet notes. For sunday fourth two thousand and
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
Government Report Finds 20 Different Agencies Use Facial Recognition
"A new report from the government accountability office says at least twenty federal agencies are using facial recognition technology. But not just the obvious acronyms ones like the fbi and tsa an ice agencies like at the us fish and wildlife service. The food and drug administration and nasa are using the tech as well and more than half thirteen of the agencies using facial recognition. Don't know what systems their employees are using or how often they use them the agencies that do keep track say. They've used it for identifying people at the january six insurrection and during last summer's protests sparked by the murder of george floyd including the us postal service according to greta goodwin director of the gao's homeland security and justice team so the postal inspection service use facial recognition technology in conjunction with the civil unrest. That happened last year so what. They told us that they were looking to see whether us postal property had been damaged whether male had been stolen
Native America Calling
National Bison Range Transferred to BIA in Trust for CSKT
"The national bison range in north west montana is one step closer to being fully managed by the confederated stylish and kuni tribes aaron bolton reports the us interior department put the nineteen thousand acres of land into trust last week the transfer of the land out of the national wildlife refuge system into travel control is part of the cs kt water compact passed by congress last year. The land will still be owned by the federal government but placed in trust for the tribes. That means the land will be under management of the tribes for the first time since nineteen eight. When the federal government took the land from the flathead indian reservation the tribes began to take over management of the bison range late last year. Travel officials will manage the range with operational and financial support from the us fish and wildlife service over the next two years ceus kt will venture fully fund management and conservation of the range for national native news. I'm erin bolton
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
Harriet Tubman's Father's Home Discovered by Archeologists in Maryland
"In maryland say. They believe they've found the home of harriet tubman. Father the home side of ben ross was found on land acquired last year by the us. Fish and wildlife service or the archaeologists who worked on the sites tubman born born era minta. Roz would have live there as a child and would have come back to live there with her father as a teenager. Tubman who was born a slave escaped in eighteen forty nine and guided dozens of others to freedom using in network of safe houses known as the underground railroad. I'm lisa lacerra and this is fox
Native America Calling
Anchorage man sentenced for falsely marketing goods as made by an Alaska Native
"And anchorage man was sentenced to five years probation. After being found guilty of illegally marketing items he sold as being made by an alaskan native artists came. Nba trip crouse has more on march tenth. The us district judge also sentenced six-year-old lease krenek to pay two thousand five hundred dollars in restitution and surrender more than one hundred twenty five thousand dollars in retail products. According to a joint news. Release from the us. Fish and wildlife service and the indian arts and crafts board skunk was charged with a felony violation of the indian arts and crafts act. The law makes it illegal to fossil market products is native made. Skunk was also charged with a misdemeanor violation of the marine mammal protection. Act according to the release the charges stem from two thousand fifteen whence chronic owned the arctic treasures. Gift shop downtown anchorage. He sold a polar bear skull to an undercover agent of the us fish and wildlife service in violation of the marine mammal protection act in two thousand seventeen undercover agents. Visited skornik store again announced about carvings. Skirt told the agents that an alaskan native artists from point hope made them but the carvings were actually made by s- chronic during his probation chronic will be prohibited from working with animal products. In anchorage on trip
WBZ Midday News
Barrett writes first majority Supreme Court opinion in FOIA dispute
"And Supreme Court Justice Amy Amy Cockney Baron has delivered her first majority opinion for the nation's highest court. This is a case involving the Federal Freedom of Information Act, a PC's Elizabeth Scholesy with more from Washington, in her first opinion as a U. S Supreme Court Justice Amy Cockney Barrett rights on behalf of a 72 majority, saying federal government agencies can refuse to disclose documents related to internal deliberations. As part of an exemption in the Freedom of Information Act. The case involved the environmental group Sierra Club trying to obtain documents from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Steven Brier were the two dissents. Elizabeth Halsey. ABC NEWS
All Things Considered
Wind power company vows to help save critically endangered California condor
"Federal wildlife authorities could taken unprecedented step by helping a wind energy company Breed in danger. California condors The hatchlings would be meant to replace condors killed by wind turbines, all with birds have made a comeback from near extinction. There are worries States. Growing wind energy sector could pose a new threat. Kcrw's Dural sac's been fills us in power company even grid is behind the plan. It operates a wind farm in current counties to Hatch, a P Mountains Prime Condor country. None of the birds have been killed by even grids turbines so far, but the company predicts that two birds will die over a 30 year period, along with their chicks or eggs, according to the L A Times. To avoid penalties even greatest. Proposing to essentially make up condors. The company would spend about half a million dollars over five years to raise six of the birds at an Oregon zoo. Efficient wildlife services on board, as is theater, Bon Society, and some environmental groups say the plan doesn't go far enough, and the company should have to put up more money for condor
WGN Radio
"wildlife service" Discussed on WGN Radio
"To the great outdoors. Show your host Charlie Potter. Here on WGN Radio and Thank you so much for joining me and If you're grabbing a snow shovel a bit later today, Today's show will put you in a good spirit. My guest this morning is none other than Brent Manning, who has such a long head, agree and biography in the history. Of natural resource management that I'm not going to go through it all. I'm just simply going to say breath. You've been kind enough to be on this show many times. You absolutely were the best director that apartment natural resource Is Nell annoyed that we've ever had. You've had national impact for a long time. And most of all, I enjoy hunting a duck block sharing a duck blind with you, but this year we didn't do that. We better do it in 2021. Welcome to the show Brit. Thank you generally very much, And I certainly appreciate that want to wonderful introduction. So this morning show, Brent, We're just gonna have fun. I have been so far this year on the show. I've been tackling some issues and hitting some things that I think we all should be thinking about in the world of conservation. And I thought, Let's just have a show with a little bit of levity, but also one that talks about Where we ought to go. But But talks about it in an aspirational way, as opposed was just so much criticism about everything. And maybe you and I could could make people optimistic about Where we're going and conservation based upon Your your time and conservation your time leading Illinois and just the fact that you you're one of the truly one of the country's experts so, but that said I gotta ask you. How was your deer season? My dear season was fabulous. It was wonderful at a lot of beer. I wound up killing and nice, but But I also turned down. Probably. Oh, I don't know, maybe can or 15 that would have been longer under most conditions. I was waiting for a certain one. Yeah. I was fortunate enough that he walked under me at the right time. Well, I know that perhaps I think l cunning is. It's probably your favorite brand. Is that fair to say it is Charlie. It is, but I hate to say this at 68. Those mountains are getting pretty dull going high. God, I thought you were a lot younger than that breath. You certainly asked. I did. I did to Charlie with you. Oh, well, so you you like, so many of us have been pretty much staying close to home. Um, what do you hear? In the woods and waters and skies and decoys of Illinois. What do you think the general temperature is of the people you know, and what you hear here we've been through this year of probate. More people spent time in the outdoors, and they ever have so many new people. Were introduced to the outdoors. Do you think that this introduction of people to be outdoors is going to be lasting? Or are you in the camp that says two years from now I'm putting away money now because You gonna be used both campers, decoys, guns, You know you name it. It's going to be for sale because everyone got excited about going outdoors and going fishing. And then my gosh, life returned normal boy. We sure hope it does. And and all the things that stop this in the past or back at us, or do you think this is real? That we can continue? The momentum we've got? You know, Charlie, You know me for a long time. And if the Ducks aren't flying there just about getting ready to and I really feel that Zach positive perspective. Hey. It's going to stick and it's going to stick with those folks that it should stick with. You know, there are a lot of people make that We'll do it, You know? Yeah. I've got nothing else to do that once I was introduced to it and a very young child, I couldn't get away from it. It was terribly addictive. And still wear. I absolutely love all of it. And it it comes from the perspective of loving the people that have joined me in the woods or in the death line. Um, uh, from loving the conversation to the stories. Um, Charlie, you and I developed a wife a lifelong friendship over you inviting me to that car one time many, many years ago, and you still make fun of me for missing that he shot on a goose. Yeah, boy, I'm going to go up that I would never on the air, Never on WGN of all stations asked you to recount How a singular goose honking with its wings cup coming towards our decoys, your read to the blind, floating by and approximately 8 to 10 yards. Could still be flying. I would never ask you to explain that anybody on the air you know, Charlie and I doing with you? It had to be a miracle. Granted that goose? Yeah, Fuller, Bill invulnerability to my lead shot. It was that long ago, folks that this happened so well bred. I am And for those of you listening, I can tell you I have hunted in many places with Mr Manning and most the time when he when he says That's my target, Whether it's in the air or walking your friend you're very accomplished shot, so I actually think that I was with you on the only time in your life. That you missed and let's just you know, record. Leave that there. Okay, Let's believe that she'll break uhm We don't have a director to the Fish and Wildlife Service yet and I was doing some research. It surprised me. When President Trump was elected. It took him two full years, too. Nominated have confirmed a really a Ship, which to be the director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, one of the single most important positions we have in the country for conservation. So I know that you and we're not that I'm not gonna ask you to say what it was. But for those of you listening, folks, Brett Manning was offered one of the highest positions and wildlife management in this country and for a variety of reasons you were smart enough not to move to Washington, D. C s so therefore, I can't accuse you have never having lived inside the Beltway. But when you think about the qualifications if you will Being director, The Fish and Wildlife Service, which frankly, I think is in many ways more important than the secretary of interior when it comes to managing wildlife. They may answer to the secretary of interior, but they're they're really the face of conservation and wildlife management. Whatever qualifications you think this individual should have? Well, I know you're not running for anything. So go ahead. No, no, I am. I'm certainly not running pretty thing. Um, What's needed is very, very adept. Um I'll use the word even though it has a negative connotation, politician, someone that not on Lee has a background in fishing wildlife management, but can also talk to and convince those folks that are I'd only needed to pass appropriate legislation. Um, you've got to be able to talk to a to a billionaire as well as a popper. You have to convince them all that you're on their side and a good fish and wildlife director is on their side. It's somebody that will that will not only pave the way for more opportunity, more access. Um more benefits.
KQED Radio
"wildlife service" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Center for Health Security. Thomas Boy Ki, director of global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. Once again Thank you both for taking time to be with us today. Thanks So much for having us. Thank you for having me. It's been nearly 50 years since the passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973, designed to protect species threatened by development or other consequences of economic growth. But how Well is it working As we stared down the world's sixth great mass extinction. Investigative reporter Jimmy Tobias looked at the Endangered Species Act through the lens of one struggling big cat. Endangered Florida Panther. He's a contributing writer for the Nation and the Guardian. He's also a 2021 Alicia Patterson fellow and his reporting on the Florida Panther appears in the intercept this week. Welcome, Jimmy. Thanks for having me. You're quite welcome. Tell us more about the Florida Panther first. How endangered are they? Sure. Yeah, The Florida Panther is a subspecies of the once abundant cougar. It Z, now the last of its kind along the Eastern Seaboard, and it's facing all sorts of threats, a zbig cat and needs. Large landscapes to survive, but its habitat is getting gobbled up by development. Panthers air regularly run over on the roads in South Florida faces competition from invasive species and a number of genetic maladies. One of the sources. I spoke to my story whose renowned National Park Service biologist told me there's about 150 left in the world. That's it in the whole world 150. Now developers are after some of their last habitat. What's going on there? Well. Florida has a booming population and lots of development. And it's constantly encroaching on Florida Panther habitat and right now the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, which is our country's most important Wildlife Conservation Agency. It enforces the Endangered Species Act. It is considering a plan from a group of landowners in South Florida. Ah plan that would, if approved, allow them to build a string of new residential and commercial developments. In Panther habitat. In South Florida. And how big of a piece of real estate are we talking about here? Well, the plans approved, is currently written, it would allow for development in roughly 45,000 acres of Panther habitat. And you know the plan does have some conservation benefits. It would set aside lands for preservation. But opponents of this plan are very concerned that the development will push the panther towards extinction that it could jeopardize. Survival and recovery of this of this endangered subspecies. Because they would be eating like what? Hundreds of thousands of people in that area Yeah, an analysis by the conservationists. Opponents of the plan found that it could bring hundreds of thousands of new people to the areas well, his cars and and road kill is a leading cause of death for Panthers. So that's a major concern the impact of new cars in the area the impact into people and just the loss of habitat from development. Recent paper in the journal Plus one by scientists in Florida found that you know, the Panther is restricted to something like 5% of its historic range and one Population on and that it can't afford to lose any more of its core habitat if it's going to survive and thrive in the future on so that's the real concern. There's just this species. Is really struggling, and it can't afford habitat loss. That's what the science says, and that's what conservationists are saying. Started out talking about the Endangered Species Act. Let's get into that a bit. What does that act require in a case like this? Sure, Well, the day's be exact, is one of our most powerful environmental laws was passed overwhelmingly by Congress. And then it gives the United States a great deal of authority to block developments that harm endangered species. Basically The message of that law is that no one has the right to send a species to the brink of extinction or towards extinction. And so under the law, the Fish and Wildlife Service has the authority to block a great deal of development from infrastructure projects to any kind of development has any sort of federal permit. But it almost never does. The agency almost never blocks projects, and that's been an ongoing trend of bipartisan trend for many years now, so that is, but Species like the Panther in a pretty tough bind. We think this might be different in this case with the Panthers their hopes that it might actually block it. You know, most of the sources I talked to former Fish and Wildlife Service officials in Florida conservations. Very few of them are optimistic that the agency is going to block this plan, and in fact, the fishermen live service has permitted the destruction of Tens of thousands of acres of panther habitat in Florida over the last couple decades, so its track record on this issue is not great. Does this mean that the Endangered Species Act really? Isn't being enforced right now. Or are there other rules through which it could still have teeth? Many of people feel who closely observed. The official answer is that it is not adequately enforcing this law that it Too often bends to pressure from political interests from corporate interests. You know that it doesn't have the resource is that needs or the political support? It needs toe aggressively enforce this law, and this lot is immensely popular with the American public. Pole in 2018 found that something like 80% of the American public support the essay, so there's a great deal of support among the people is just that the government doesn't have the gumption or the resource is On suffers from pressures that undermine the enforcement of this very popular law. So I would thief, Fish and Wildlife Service not be stepping in to protect endangered species to the degree that Science says they needed. Is that what you're saying? They don't have the will. But you know the rank and file of official Alex. Service by and large is Very committed to the conservation of species on wants to do the right thing in many cases, But what I've been told by the source I've talked. I've talked to many fish and Wildlife service retirees, especially Is that the upper management too often is willing to bend the political pressures you know, out of careerist intentions or out of just none willingness to engage in conflict or toe. To take that tough stand on. So that's part of the problem. There's a cultural problem, I think within the upper echelons of the agency on D yes. Also, the agency is underfunded that many, many people believe that And it just doesn't have the political air cover from Congress and the White House that it needs to really enforce this this law toe to the full extent I can understand that because there's a lot of money involved here, especially when developers come in and want to build for hundreds of thousands of people. That's right. And there's also you know a lot of pressure from kind of conservative pressure groups industry groups that are constantly suing the agency to block a stronger protections and things along those lines. It's a very complicated situation. But you know the bottom line messages that this law that so many people love is not really being allowed to fulfill its true potential. This is science Friday from W. N. Y C studios. Let's talk about how many other species might this trend of inaction be putting in danger? The science says that we're living through this sixth great extinction. Ah, U N backed panel two years ago found that as many as one million species face the threat of extinction in the coming decades or beyond. On DATs happening right here at home. You know, there are many, many species in the United States from Panthers, too. Right whales to stage grabs two salmon that Face a very bleak future, and unless this agency can really get its act together, you know there's not a lot of hope right now. And so, you know, it's definitely imperative upon the public to put pressure on this agency. I think to do the right thing in this new administration. Speaking of administration, Can you recall an administration thinking back that really believes strongly in enforcing these rules? You know, when I speak to a fishing wildlife service people they often look back on the era of the Clinton era when Mollie Beattie was the director of the Fish Wildlife Service, as as a really high point for the agency. But since then there seems to be a trend where it has become ever weaker. And so people I think are clamoring and hoping for new leadership that can really revitalize on agency that is full of great scientists and great people who wanna, you know, conserve. The floor in the fun of this this country. Well, we hear that Joe Biden and his administration is, you know, the new environmental president. I guess we'll have to wait and see how this moves through his administration. Yes, the jury's definitely out and you know, I think We will see how this administration.
PRI's The World
"wildlife service" Discussed on PRI's The World
"Each other sometimes. The little ginger beer added to the water. Then unwrap the twin crack and dip the meat into a sauce of vinegar. Ginger is a delicious addictive ritual. And let's be honest. Pretty messy most people order a pair of crabs one male and one female but for some two is not enough this customer. Mr joe is packing some live. Crabs in a plastic bag for takeaway. This is the season for harry crabs. He says i can eat five at a time. They're good for you high in protein but before you start preparing for your own harry crab feast be warned. You could be breaking the law. In countries like the us and the uk harry crops are considered an invasive species that rides over on freight ships damages local ecosystems smugglers are only adding to the problem. Thirty seven hundred of these invasive creatures are sees does they're being smuggled into cincinnati. It is illegal to bring them into the us without a permit last year the us fish and wildlife service launched operation hidden. They call the mitten crabs in the us and by july. They'd seized nearly fifteen thousand of them. So menace or delicacy. Well living in china. I know where i stand. When harry crab season arrives i get in line for my chance to dig in for the world. I'm rebecca cancer in shanghai. It is a new year a good time to clear out your email inbox. If you want to put that off another couple of days though and do something else to get twenty twenty one started ride subscribe to our newsletter top of the world. It will give you a quick hit of news stories from around the globe weekday mornings so you can start the day informed. Sign up the world dot org slash newsletters you hold. You'll never.
AP News Radio
Feds to delay seeking legal protection for monarch butterfly
"Despite its declining population the Associated Press has been told the monarch butterfly will have to wait several years more to receive protection under the Endangered Species Act the US fish and Wildlife Service will consider the monarch butterfly and candidate for designation as threatened or endangered but there are other species in line ahead of it Charlie Wooley who's the head of the agency's Great Lakes regional office says the monarch status will be reviewed each year a virgin see action could be taken earlier but plans now call for proposing to list the orange and black butterfly in twenty twenty four scientists estimate the monarch population in the eastern United States has fallen about eighty percent since the mid nineteen nineties while the drop off in the western part of the country has been even steeper I'm showing up there
All Things Considered
Under Cover of Thanksgiving, Trump Administration Pushes to Relax Rules Protecting Birds
"Step toward weakening legal protections for migrating birds. NPR's Martin cost reports, the administration says the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 has been interpreted to broadly. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service now says that companies should be penalized on Lee when they're quote, purposeful in killing birds in hazards such as waste oil pits. Sarah Greenberger of the Conservation group Autobahn says the administration is trying to make its current hands off attitude permanent. The final rule change would remove any obligation but any industry to implement any best management practices. Some companies say they'd try to protect birds anyway. Without the threat of penalties. The Trump Administration rule could be published in a month. The incoming Biden administration could reverse it, but that would take time. Martin cost NPR NEWS Wall Street The Dow was up 37
Houston Public Media Local Newscasts
Trump administration moves ahead on gutting bird protections
"Trump administration says it plans to move forward on a measure that would do away with protections for roughly a thousand different species of birds in the us move by the administration coming despite objections from federal officials in many scientists who say billions. More birds could perish in coming decades. Those restrictions are removed. Us fish and wildlife service posted its assessment of the rule the final stat. Meaning a rollback would become official within thirty days oil and gas industries of long-sought rollback that limits federal prosecution for industry practices to kill an estimated four hundred and fifty million to one billion birds a
AP 24 Hour News
World's last known white giraffe gets GPS tracking device
"The only known white giraffe in the world of male has been tracked with the GPS device to protect it from poachers in Kenya, a conservation group in Kenya says. The white giraffe now stands alone after a female and her calf were killed by poachers. In March. A rare genetic code called Lucas, Um, causes the white color. He makes the one surviving giraffe standard dangerously for poachers in the arid savannah near the Somali border. Now the GPS tracking device attached to one of the drops horns will ping every hour to alert Wildlife rangers to its location. Conservations have thanked the Kenya Wildlife Service along with the Northern rangelands Trust. I'm Charles
WBZ Morning News
Australia begins disposal of over 350 dead whales after mass stranding
"Biggest mass whale stranding will probably remain a mystery. But scientists say the social nature of the species may have played a part. 108 of about 470 pilot whales have been rescued from sandbars theme Parks and Wildlife service say there are no living whales remaining. In the harbor. The pod got into trouble earlier this week, with efforts now turning to the task of disposing 350 carcasses at sea experts. Say pilot whales to form strong family bonds and if one that gets in trouble, they put out a distress call and come together as a group.
AP News Radio
US wildlife agency seeks to carve out areas from protections
"The trump administration's working to change environmental rules to allow the government to deny habitat protections for endangered species if they interfere with development critics say the changes proposed by the US fish and Wildlife Service to deny protections for endangered species in areas that would see greater economic benefits from being developed could open protected areas to more energy development and commercial activities like logging it's the latest move by the trump administration to change how the Endangered Species Act is U. sed wildlife advocates say the administration's approach has put natural resource extraction and commercial development over protecting sites that are home to dwindling populations of endangered species Jackie Quinn Washington
AP News Radio
US wildlife agency seeks to carve out areas from protections
"The trump administration's working to change environmental rules to allow the government to deny habitat protections for endangered species if they interfere with development critics say the changes proposed by the US fish and Wildlife Service to deny protections for endangered species in areas that would see greater economic benefits from being developed could open protected areas to more energy development and commercial activities like logging it's the latest move by the trump administration to change how the Endangered Species Act is U. sed wildlife advocates say the administration's approach has put natural resource extraction and commercial development over protecting sites that are home to dwindling populations of endangered species Jackie Quinn Washington