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Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996. Description: English: An Act to make provision for the protection of wild mammals from certain cruel acts; and for connected purposes.
A consolidating Act from the previous Deer Acts. Protection of Badgers Act 1992. Makes it an offence to use badger tongs, to dig for a badger, or to disturb it within its sett, or to release a dog into a sett. Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996. Defines a wild mammal as one which is neither domestic nor captive.
An Act to make provision for the protection of wild mammals from certain cruel acts; and for connected purposes. Consolidated Fund Act 1996 (repealed) 1996 c. 4
The Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 (WFRHBA), is an Act of Congress (Pub. L. 92–195), signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 18, 1971. [2] The act covered the management, protection and study of "unbranded and unclaimed horses and burros on public lands in the United States."
International Convention on the Protection of Birds (followed the 1902 International Convention for the Protection of Birds that are Useful for Agriculture) Migratory Bird Treaty (Migratory Birds Convention – Canada and United States) Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR, Canberra Convention)
The first environmental statute was the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, which has been largely superseded by the Clean Water Act (CWA). However, most current major environmental statutes, such as the federal statutes listed above, were passed in the time spanning the late 1960s through the early 1980s.
The Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act was an Act of the Scottish Parliament passed in February 2002, making Scotland the first part of the United Kingdom to ban traditional fox hunting and hare coursing. It was repealed in 2023.
III; 16 U.S.C. § 1536 (§ 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) Defenders of Wildlife , 504 U.S. 555 (1992), was a landmark Supreme Court of the United States decision, handed down on June 12, 1992, that heightened standing requirements under Article III of the United States Constitution .