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Citing the need to prevent lead toxicity hazards to wildlife, the Federal Governments primary wildlife management agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildife Service (FWS) has banned the use of lead ammunition for hunting nuisance birds. The decision was published by FWS as a final rulemaking action in the Federal Register. - [Read more]

An important program to protect key grassland and wetland complexes in the core of the U.S. Prairie Pothole region has been proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is called the "Dakota Grasslands Conservation Area", and would dedicate $588 million from the Land and Water Conservation Fund to protect more than 240,000 acres of wetlands and 1.7 million acres of privately-owned grasslands in North Dakota, South Dakota, and eastern Montana. - [Read more]

Draft voluntary federal guidelines issued today by the Interior Department that focus on the wildlife impacts of wind energy will result in continued increases in bird deaths and habitat loss from wind farms across the country, says American Bird Conservancy (ABC), the nations leading bird conservation organization. Members of the public will have 90 days to provide comments on the proposed guidelines to the Secretary of the Interior prior to a final version being concluded. - [Read more]

American Bird Conservancy (ABC), said today that the build-out of wind energy proposed by the federal government to meet a Department of Energy target of generating 20% of the nations electricity through wind power is expected to kill at least one million birds per year by 2030, and probably significantly more. - [Read more]

Increasingly scarce native seabirds such as the Laysan Albatross and Wedge-tailed Shearwater will benefit from a new predator-proof fence being installed to create a 59-acre area exclosure at Kaena Point Natural Area Reserve located at the northwest tip of the island of Oahu. - [Read more]

With profound analytic and synthetic ability, Mr. Darwin investigates the cellmaking instinct with the hive-bee. His approach of coping with it is representative. He falls back from the much more correctly to the much less flawlessly developed instinct – through the hive-bee to the humble-bee, which utilizes its own cocoon as being a comb, and also to courses of bees of intermediate talent, endeavouring to show how the passage may be gradually produced through the lowest to the... - [Read more]

Preliminary necropsies by the University of Georgia on some of the more than 200 Brown Pelicans that have washed up on the shores of Topsail Beach on the coast of southeastern North Carolina are inconclusive and do not yet support concerns that foul play was responsible. Complete toxicology and pathology reports are expected to be available soon. - [Read more]

Following comments by American Bird Conservancy, the nations leading bird conservation organization, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has announced that the Rusty Blackbird and the Mexican Crow can now only be deliberately killed as a nuisance species following approval and issuance of a specific permit. - [Read more]

Leaders of a massive, six-state, 1.1 million-acre habitat restoration initiative that will potentially benefit a host of rare birds and many species of wildlife say that the project has had an auspicious start with restoration work initiated on about 130,000 acres. - [Read more]

Thanks to action by American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and Fundacion ProAves, approximately 1,480 additional acres of forest and reforested land in central Colombia will now be protected as part of the El Paujil Bird Reserve. - [Read more]

Recent reports of thousands of dead birds falling from the sky in Arkansas, while getting much attention in the press, only represent a tiny fraction of birds killed each year due to human causes, according to American Bird Conservancy, the nations leading bird conservation organization. - [Read more]

Sections of the press have pounced on news this week that a US professor has said the plastic rubbish patch floating in the Pacific Ocean is not as large as has been claimed. - [Read more]

The Irish government is co-funding a Euro 150,000 research project into CETO wave technology. - [Read more]

Foodstuffs from German pig and poultry feed contaminated with dioxins four times above EU legal limits have entered the UK. - [Read more]

The Green Energy Training Centre (GETC) in Wirral opened its doors in November last year and has begun its training courses in renewable energy technologies. - [Read more]

The numbers of the once-thought extinct, Yellow-eared Parrot have increased to their highest levels since the species was found on the brink of extinction in 1998, when just 81 birds were found in one flock surviving in a remote mountainous area of Colombia. - [Read more]

As anticipated, the chief executive of Northern Ireland Water (NIW), Laurence MacKenzie, has resigned from his post. - [Read more]

A new network aimed at helping businesses and organisations in the energy and environmental industries to meet and connect has been launched by RENEW. - [Read more]

The Commission investigating the BP oil spill has found BP and other companies guilty of complacency and blames cost cutting and poor management and engineering decisions. - [Read more]

The plans for an energy-from-waste plant to be built in south Devon took a step forward today. - [Read more]