Critter News
AUGUST 18, 2008
Tania Julie Siyam, a 32-year-old Canadian art dealer, has been sentenced to serve 60 months in prison and pay a $100,000 fine for illegally smuggling ivory from Cameroon to the United States. Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife officials from Environment Canada and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Cleveland, Ohio.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
Canada has more than the US. … It’s illegal to shoot trumpeter swans in Minnesota. Only several dozen of these swans wintered in the region (the region being, approximately, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming) and for some reason they were almost all at this river in this year, and on this day, they were right there in view.
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Critter News
MARCH 8, 2009
The provincial government says it's gone from "worst to first" and Ontario is now the only jurisdiction in Canada with special protections for law-enforcement animals like police dogs and horses. Tags: ontario canada legislation animal welfare. It is now law as of March 1.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2011
It’s illegal to raise wild birds (even orphaned ones) without state and federal permits. Above are Canada Goose goslings. Experienced Canada geese will corral young from less experienced females and you’ll find rafts of 20 goslings tended by a four adults–safety in large numbers.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
under the 1969 Endangered Species Conservation Act and later transferred to the 1973 Endangered Species Act; then protected with other birds of prey under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act through agreement with Mexico, but not Canada, in 1972 1. They were officially listed as Endangered in 1970 in the U.S.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
The State of Louisiana has increased fines for illegal killing of bears. The area is recognized as a Globally Important Bird Area for birds migrating between the US and Canada. Finley National Wildlife Refuge’s primary management goal is to provide wintering habitat for dusky Canada geese. Established in 1964, the William L.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 29, 2008
Earlier this month, NASA released new satellite photographs showing continued illegal cutting of the Mexican fir forests where virtually all of eastern North America’s monarch butterflies spend the winter.
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