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Animal Legal Defense Fund Ranks States on Animal Protection

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The ALDF has released a report on how different states' animal protection laws stack up. Tags: animal law. Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon.

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Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific

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Even before the islands sink into the ocean they will probably have been host to successive waves of extinction and colonisation, based on natural laws expounded as McArthur and Wilson’s Theory of Island Biogeography. Featured image is a Guam Rail, a Pacific species of rail extinct in the wild. Image by Greg Hume, CC.

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The Case for Adding the U.S. Territories in the Caribbean to the ABA Area

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territories are Guam (pop. For example, the Endangered Species Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act—America’s most important avian conservation laws—apply in both territories. Adding Puerto Rico and the USVI would largely achieve the goal of bringing all Americans into full membership of the ABA family. The only other populated U.S.