ONE-THIRD OF WILDLIFE REFUGES USE GM CROPS IN SOUTHEAST
Genetically Modified Seeds Okayed by Obama Fish & Wildlife Service Director Pick Hamilton
Fish and Wildlife Service
News Releases
ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT FELL INTO DISUSE UNDER NOMINEE
Only One Jeopardy Opinion in Nearly 6,000 Consultations as Staff Told to Refrain
POLITICAL MANIPULATION OF SCIENCE RIFE DURING NOMINEE’S TENURE
Fish & Wildlife Service Southeast Region Employees Saw Interference and Reprisal
FEDERAL CASH BRINGS REWARD FOR INFORMATION ON ILLEGAL WOLF KILLINGS TO $50,000
Contact:
Rob Edward, WildEarth Guardians,(303) 573-4898 ext. 762, redward@wildearthguardians.org
Michael Robinson, Center for Biological Diversity, (575) 534-0360, michaelr@biologicaldiversity.org…
FEDERAL WILDLIFE REPORT CENSORED
Highly Redacted Inspector General Report Posted on Official Website
FIGHT TO RE-CLASSIFY PYGMY OWL AS ENDANGERED
Conservationists Take First Step to Re-establish Protections for the Pygmy Owl
FEDERAL WILDLIFE SCIENTISTS CAUGHT IN ETHICS TUG-OF-WAR
Conflicting Orders Make Politically Sensitive Scientific Work a Career Minefield
LEGAL PETITION TO SAVE NEVADA’S AMARGOSA TOAD
Off-Road Traffic and Habitat Destruction May Doom Toad without Intervention
LAWSUIT TO FORCE FLORIDA MANATEE OVERSIGHT RECORD RELEASE
Boating Speed Limits, Warning Signs and Swim-With Harassment at Issue
BUSH ADMINISTRATION FAILS TO PROTECT RARE SAND MOUNTAIN BLUE BUTTERFLY
SAN FRANCISCO— The Bush administration today refused to extend the protections of the Endangered Species Act to the rare Sand Mountain blue butterfly, despite the fact that it has steadily declined…
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Swan Dive — Trumpeter Swan Restoration Trumped by Politics (August 2001) Swan Dive traces how the declining prospects for the survival of Greater Yellowstone's trumpeter swans have intertwined with decisions by the agencies charged with ensuring their survival. Unfortunatley, these decisions have imperiled this last native nesting population of trumpeters in the lower 48 states. more >> |
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Sitting Ducks — USFWS Assaults the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (June 1998) According to its own law enforcement personnel, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is bowing to intense political pressure to allow unethical hunting techniques, principally baiting, which they believe will facilitate detrimental over-harvesting of migratory game birds. The Special Agents are outraged by what they see as their agency's retreat from strong enforcement against hunting practices which contradict the principles of fair chase and damage the very resource whose survival makes recreational hunting possible. more >> |
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Grizzly Science — Grizzly Bear Biology in the Greater Yellowstone (October 1997) Experts from various state and federal agencies chronicle the conflict between the practice of wildlife biology and the reality of bureaucratic politics within public resource agencies of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Their professional experiences exhibit common problems of bureaucratic dysfunction, including suppression of science, falsification of information, and harassment of those working to ensure the survival of the grizzly bear. more >> |
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Noah's Ark is Leaking — The Department of Interior Abandons International Species Protection (May 1997) The FWS has abandoned its legal obligation to protect international threatened and endangered species. There has been a decade-long de facto moratorium on the listing of foreign species. Commercial interests abuse the process by importing rare animals. more >> |
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Tarnished Trophies — The Department of Interior's Wild Sheep Loophole (October 1996) According to its own specialists, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is driving protected foreign game species to extinction through the illegal issuance of permits to import game trophies. Despite mandates to enforce both the Endangered Species Act and international conservation treaties, the Assistant Directorate for International Affairs (AIA) within the Fish & Wildlife Service is promoting importation of sports-hunted trophies of threatened and, in some cases, endangered species. more >> |
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2005 Politics Trumps Science At U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service |
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1998 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Law Enforcement Survey |
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Craig Manson for Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks |
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PEER Campaign: Scientific Integrity |