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Their duties include "the preservation and enhancement of the quality of the natural environment, including water, air and soil quality; renewable resources, including migratory birds and other non-domestic flora and fauna; water; meteorology;" [86] The Environmental Protection Act is the main piece of Canadian environmental legislation that ...
[12] [13] [14] Other federal agencies, such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service pursue primarily conservation missions, [15] [16] while still others, such as the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, tend to focus more on beneficial use of natural resources. [17] [18]
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA / ˈ s iː. k w ə /) is a California statute passed in 1970 and signed in to law by then-governor Ronald Reagan, [1] [2] shortly after the United States federal government passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to institute a statewide policy of environmental protection.
Environmental crime is an illegal act which directly harms the environment.These illegal activities involve the environment, wildlife, biodiversity, and natural resources. ...
The richness and complexity of the Division's history [1] is inseparable from the larger story of the growth and maturation of American society in the 20th century. In the early 1900s, Americans struggled to balance competing interests stemming from westward expansion, preservation of natural spaces, resource disputes on public and tribal lands, and other such issues.
Conservation officers enforce Ontario’s natural resources laws. They investigate and prosecute offenders under many federal and provincial statutes, relating to: fire, fish and wildlife, invasive species , forestry, aggregates (sand and gravel), public lands, public safety (e.g. recreational vehicle use, forest fire prevention) and Law ...
In 2014, The USDA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) criticized the Service for a number of issues including its failure to efficiently allocate resources and its failure to administer appropriate fines for animal welfare violations among other issues. The report found the Service conducted inspections at facilities that did not have any ...
[84] [87] As was done in the UDHR, Stone outlined the necessary elements of nature's participation in human legal systems, describing such a legal system as necessarily including: recognition of injuries as subject to redress by public body, standing to institute legal actions (with guardians acting on behalf of the natural entity), redress ...