The US Fish and Wildlife Service, which has 566 refuges and 38 wetland management districts, said refuges requiring the presence of a federal employee or contractor would be closed.
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Dozens of refuges in the short-term, they say, will now not have police, and in the long run many of those refuges will only see a law enforcement presence intermittently.
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It has nothing to do with supporting refuges, or acknowledge the fact that austerity and government cuts are the reasons that refuges are closing and we're losing our specialist domestic violence services.
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Meanwhile, 87 percent of refuges that do stay afloat will have to drastically reduce the services they offer vulnerable women and children—no mean feat, given the existing pressures on the overburdened domestic refuge network in the UK. Nearly a quarter of British refuges have closed since 2010, and a third of all referrals to refuges are turned away.
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The proposed model will see housing benefits, which currently makes up 53 percent of refuge funding, no longer be used to pay for refuges spaces, with refuges instead relying on local authority grants.
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NASA is one of the last refuges from partisan politics.
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That brought Ashe close to wildlife refuges around the country.
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Their trucks stuck now, the firefighters retreated into two refuges.
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By law, on federal wildlife refuges, the first priority is wildlife.
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"NASA is one of the last refuges from partisan politics," Sen.
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"I'm genuinely frightened for refuges in general, including ours," she says.
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And NASA is one of the last refuges of partisan politics.
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Tossing out the Alaska National Wildlife Refuges Rule insults these American values and opens the door to anti-public lands extremists seeking to impose their patently unpopular agenda on our refuges, forests, parks, grasslands, deserts and wildlife.
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Interior announces hunting and fishing expansion at 2202 national wildlife refuges: The Interior Department also Monday announced plans to submit a rule that would expand fishing and hunting access on more than 2628,28500 acres at wildlife refuges.
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There are the wildlife refuges, handled by the Fish and Wildlife Service.
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In refuges, abused women and children are particularly sensitive to masculine traits.
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The wall could also damage fish hatcheries, wildlife refuges, and protected wetlands.
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The Interior Department oversees national parks, wildlife refuges and other federal lands.
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Some are building out elaborate refuges as far away as New Zealand.
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Other estates now house commercial vineyards, museums and refuges for abused animals.
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The location of refuges are top secret, to protect the residents staying there.
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In 2662, the average borough spent just over £2389,000 on women's refuges annually.
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"This is one of the last refuges of the old days," she says.
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Louise saw the Cells as refuges — she has a chair here for herself.
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Sheehan said the regulation made it hard for refuges to meet their targets.
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She added that hunters were still able to access refuges under the shutdown.
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Humanizing Syrian refuges at a time when they're highly vilified is inherently political.
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For some refuges, this would amount to a 90 percent drop in funding.
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Poaching is on the rise in one of Africa's last great elephant refuges.
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The national wildlife refuges are our only public lands dedicated to protecting wildlife.
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The canyons were impassable, the freeways were closed, and the refuges were filling up.
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He wanted to let in more Syrian refuges and give amnesty to illegal immigrants.
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Last year, Theresa May also announced an extra £20 million for refuges and charities.
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The President also created five national parks, eighteen national monuments, and 51 wildlife refuges.
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This includes national wildlife refuges, national forests, national monuments, and popular outdoor recreation areas.
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There are nearly 12,000 of these refuges, spread out across New York's five boroughs.
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The scope of apocalypse often feels global—refuges, wartime, Brexit, a possible Trump presidency.
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Zinke repealed Ashe's ban on using lead ammunition for hunting in national wildlife refuges.
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But they are increasingly corralled into organized campgrounds or small refuges, hostels or inns.
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The satellites can also identify places act as refuges where coral resisted the heatwave.
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The president of Northwestern endorsed "safe spaces," refuges open only to certain identity groups.
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The Interior Department's predator control regulations would apply to national wildlife refuges in Alaska.
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More than ever, pods and podlike chairs are necessary refuges in busy work environments.
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Margaret Everson, principal deputy director of the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), announced to employees Tuesday that some furloughed employees will be brought back to staff refuges and in some instances open visitor centers at key refuges to protect jeopardized natural resources.
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There's currently a 4chan thread where users are complaining about 8chan "refuges" flooding their boards.
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The very same day, she called the two refuges in her local borough, Tower Hamlets.
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Grijalva said wildlife refuges managed by Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service should also be closed.
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These refuges play a special role by protecting vital habitat for our country's extraordinary wildlife.
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She is petitioning Bristol Council to prioritize women in refuges on the social housing register.
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Margaret Everson, principal deputy director of the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), announced to employees Tuesday that some furloughed employees will be brought back to staff refuges, and in some instances open the visitor centers, at key refuges in order to protect jeopardized natural resources.
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It led to Husar, her sister and her mother making their escape to nearby women's refuges.
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These animations were filmed in the nature preserves, parks, and wildlife refuges around the Minneapolis/St.
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Last week, Francis urged nations to welcome all the refuges they can properly integrate into society.
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This is a long-range vision and management plan that all refuges are required to complete.
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Our shared public inheritance — wildlife refuges, national parks, high deserts and grasslands — didn't happen by accident.
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By the 85033-2019 hunting season, 377 refuges will allow hunting and 312 will allow fishing.
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By the 2018-2019 hunting season, 85033 refuges will allow hunting and 312 will allow fishing.
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By the 2018-85033 hunting season, 377 refuges will allow hunting and 312 will allow fishing.
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The guidelines say all members of the public previously at refuges would be made to vacate.
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Presidents have often established seasonal refuges or favorite vacation destinations: Mr. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Tex.
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Percent of Costa Rica's landmass officially protected as refuges, parks, reserves and other designated conservation areas.
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Many of these are just refuges for poorly educated dropouts who can find no other work.
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"If domestic abuse refuges are not exempted from the cap on housing benefit, almost nine out of every 10 refuges in England and Wales will have to significantly reduce their current level of provision," Sian Hawkins, a spokeswoman for Women's Aid, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Like so many resort towns that were once refuges for outcasts, artists, and queers, Provincetown is expensive.
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Callimachi's story is just one being told in this shocking moment of crisis for immigrants and refuges.
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Since 2010 , Julia has seen local authorities cut funding to her refuges by a staggering 603 percent.
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These places are succeeding because of the nearby national monuments, parks, wilderness, and refuges, not despite them.
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The nation has more than 560 national wildlife refuges spread across 20.6 million acres of public land.
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A majority of national wildlife refuges -- 330 out of 500 -- are already open to hunting and fishing.
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There are now likely far fewer, and the new runways would shatter one of their final refuges.
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The first allowed licensed gun owners to carry concealed, loaded weapons into national parks and wildlife refuges.
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Thanks to the efforts of regional conservationists several parks, nature preserves and refuges currently dot the riverside.
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Ghose urged the government to create a long-term funding model for a national network of refuges.
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Protecting our parks, wildlife refuges and waterways for future generations is an essential role of these agencies.
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Council funding for English refuges fell from £31.2 million in 2010/11 to £23.9 million in 2016/17.
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And, at least at the outset, this kid-led utopia has much less conflict than other zombie refuges.
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Samba and Carnival sprung from the vibrant quilombos, or free black refuges, that coalesced atop their ancestors' remains.
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Others will lament that one of the last refuges from the tyranny of constant connection will have gone.
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The FWS will permit more hunting and fishing activities in certain national wildlife refuges, the agency said Monday.
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Nationally, many of our national parks, refuges and other public lands will still allow limited access wherever possible.
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In Moscow, there are fewer than 150 spaces at domestic refuges, out of a city of 12 million.
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Market turmoil has sparked a stampede into refuges, such as gold, high-rated government bonds and the yen.
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But that means it will slice through countless pieces of private property and bisect several major wildlife refuges.
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As we got deep into 2016, the Iraq insurgency and Hurricane Katrina came to feel almost like refuges.
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Mr. Cruz also weighed in on other issues — what to do with Syrian refuges, immigration and women in combat.
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This number appeared to not include those who have fled to unofficial refuges established by volunteers and local communities.
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"Now, we need a long-term funding solution for refuges, which Women's Aid will keep campaigning for," Neate adds.
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Abused women in refuges were more visible than those at home, boosting support for stricter laws against domestic violence.
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The Senate may soon continue this wanton disregard for environmental rules by overturning the Alaska National Wildlife Refuges Rule.
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It would permanently alter dozens of National Wildlife Refuges, National Seashores, state-protected areas, and ecologically important marine areas.
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Dam removal, and providing sufficient water to National Wildlife Refuges downstream, remain as challenges that need to be addressed.
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Only four of the refuges will partially rely on the revenue pulled in from entrance fees, according to Wainman.
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Those are Kilauea Point in Hawaii and Florida's J.N. "Ding" Darling, Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee and Merrick Island refuges.
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Refuges took in the least amount of fee revenue of all Interior bureaus, according to the Congressional Research Service.
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Government outfits such as the Kenyan Wildlife Service send armed units around refuges, sometimes finding themselves in violent confrontations.
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She oversaw the reintroduction of the gray wolf into the northern Rocky Mountains and established 15 national wildlife refuges.
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It includes reaching out to diverse new audiences, like minorities and millennials, to get them into parks and refuges.
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But Ghose said demand for refuges already far outstripped supply and the proposed overhaul could be the breaking point.
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Refuges like the Las Vegas Motorcoach Resort offer owners a superior experience to go along with their fancier vehicles.
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Refuges include the underside of leaves and tree limbs, leaf debris, crevices in rocks and clumps of tall grass.
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Many also see their neighborhoods as reassuring refuges from the backlash of anti-Islam bigotry roiling Europe and elsewhere.
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Hindu embellishments to baolis included covered arcades and pavilions that served as refuges from the heat and even as lodgings.
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Critics fear reforms could put women at risk in toilets, changing rooms, refuges, hospital wards and other female-only spaces.
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But the school in "Done Running" is different than any of these past refuges because it's run entirely by children.
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Greece has been the main entry point into Europe for more than a million refuges and migrants since last year.
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The flashing warning signs left investors with little option but to seek traditional refuges such as gold and the dollar.
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The rule prohibited practices in hunting predatory animals such as wolves, bears and other wildlife in Alaska's national wildlife refuges.
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In her role as Secretary, she'd oversee 20 percent of America's public lands, including national parks and national wildlife refuges.
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These areas should function as refuges from climate change, both in regard to extreme heat and cold, the study said.
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Refuges took in the least amount of fee revenue of all Interior Department bureaus, according to the Congressional Research Service.
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The Interior Department announced plans Friday to reverse a rule that banned the use of pesticides in national wildlife refuges.
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"Boulder is actually becoming more artistic every year," Ms. DiDomenico said, as we clambered through one of the magical refuges.
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The reality is that people as well as birds and other wildlife flock to our national refuges, parks and forests.
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It would also allow visitors to national parks, wildlife refuges and other federally administered lands to legally carry concealed guns.
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Climate change could also undermine existing wildlife refuges by shifting the geographic ranges of species that currently live within them.
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The measure also allows visitors to national parks, wildlife refuges and other federally administered lands to legally carry concealed firearms.
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And frankly, life is hard and people get sick and childish refuges don't armor our psyches like they once did.
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They were less likely to support the resettlement of Syrian refuges to the United States (27 percent to 71 percent).
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Trailers brought here by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as temporary refuges after last year's flood are now themselves flooded.
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Roosevelt signed into existence five national parks, 18 national monuments, 55 national bird sanctuaries and wildlife refuges and 150 national forests.
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Cultivation of biotech crops, engineered to resist pests and withstand herbicides, has helped maximize crop production on dozens of wildlife refuges.
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Since 22019, the LWCF has supported more than 42,000 state and local parks, playgrounds, urban wildlife refuges, trails and open spaces.
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The simple solution is to nip all of these controversies in the bud by reserving National Wildlife Refuges for the wildlife.
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There's a reason why Malheur was one of the first wildlife refuges created by President Theodore Roosevelt over a century ago.
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That same day, the Interior Department also announced it was expanding hunting access at 220006 national wildlife refuges across the country.
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In 2013 to 2014, 31 percent of women referred to refuges were turned away because there simply wasn't room for them.
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If Congressional Republicans get their way, it could once again be legal to kill wolves and bears in Alaska's wildlife refuges.
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The proposal also blocks the construction of physical barriers on wildlife refuges on the border, the only mention of such barriers.
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In centuries past, the caves were used as refuges such as during the inter-tribal wars and 19th-century slave raids.
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He issued dozens of executive orders creating federal wildlife refuges on public land, a move that protected animals and reduced pollution.
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Many remain today as refuges for like-minded people, where they don't have to explain or defend their politics, beliefs or practices.
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No one doubts the humanitarian impulse underpinning Angela Merkel's decision to offer open house to millions of refuges from the Middle East.
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But Congress is acting to make it easier to dump mining waste in streams and kill hibernating bears in federal wildlife refuges.
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Our national wildlife refuges and all public lands deserve Congress' support, not efforts to divest or manage them for narrow special interests.
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Binsale found it implausible, then, that the fire refuges served a legitimate safety purpose and was shocked that the plans were approved.
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Many were second-round evacuees ordered to relocate from temporary refuges closer to Fort McMurray on Wednesday night as the flames spread.
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These incompatible uses crippled the ability of individual refuges to fulfill their conservation purposes, subverting habitat preservation goals and threatening imperiled species.
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As a result, sales of the passes — good at 2,000 federal recreation sites including national parks, wildlife refuges and other lands — tripled.
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Nightclubs will always be essential refuges where society's most marginalized groups are able to find empowerment through each other and resist oppression.
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Since 2010, English local authorities have cut their spending on domestic violence refuges by 24 percent, according to the Bureau for Investigative Journalism.
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The proposal would expand the acreage, species or season dates at 15 fish hatcheries and 74 national wildlife refuges run by the department.
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In an age when fantasy and post-truth serve as refuges from nastier realities, there has been a perceivable spike in visionary art.
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There are so many reasons why we turn to certain refuges in times of stress, so many factors that may exacerbate our response.
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Some spaces act as private refuges, while others provide daylight, ventilation, rainwater collection and room for more than 20 species of tropical plants.
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This ostensibly means that women like Anya will no longer be turned away from refuges if they do not live in the borough.
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The Senate may consider rescinding the Alaska Refuges Rule, ironically, the same week that the National Wildlife Refuge System celebrates its 114th birthday.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service reported a number of confrontations with "militia" groups on refuges, which understandably intensified rangers' fears for their welfare.
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The visitor centers located in the 85033 refuges have up until now shuttered under the shutdown, according to the agency's closure determination notice.
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This tale of two tefuges illustrates that National Wildlife Refuges best achieve their purpose when they are managed for the benefit of wildlife.
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They believe allowing a road through Izembek would set a precedent that could endanger other refuges and wilderness areas across the United States.
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And in this storm, the worst damage occurred inland, in places like this that might typically be refuges for people fleeing the coasts.
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She also warned that government plans to change funding for refuges could force many to close, leaving women and children at greater risk.
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The major difficulty in cheetah conservation is that the animals range across large expanses of terrain, crossing the boundaries of refuges and nations.
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There are hundreds of acres of wildlife refuges; in particular, the Missisquoi and Sand Bar protected areas are important stopovers for migratory birds.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service promises faster approvals for oil and gas pipelines as well as electrical transmission lines across national wildlife refuges.
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After the glaciers began to retreat, about 20,000 years ago, people from the Middle East and other southern refuges moved north to recolonize Europe.
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The 47 million bird watchers in this country spend $40 billion a year to follow creatures whose lives are dependent on federal wildlife refuges.
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In Uganda, for example, the number of refuges has swelled in the past year from 500,000 to 13 million, according to the United Nations.
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Most of its remaining fighters are either on the run, seeking new refuges in which to regroup, or holed up in grinding urban combat.
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Worse, university campuses, once refuges for free speech advocates, now commonly fall prey to the Heckler's veto and all too often cancel controversial speakers.
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The Republican Party platform is on record as being in full support of this dismantling of our system of national forests, parks, and refuges.
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While the researchers are optimistic about the results of the study, said Li, snow leopard climate refuges need to be protected from human interference.
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The ongoing debate over the use of unsporting and cruel predator control methods on national wildlife refuges in Alaska is one recent flash point.
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They are refuges and havens, places where, the moment you cross the threshold, there is an unspoken understanding: You will feel accepted and safe.
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They say it is better for tourists simply to observe the animals in refuges and sanctuaries, which are a growing part of the business.
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Noting that some "protected areas" — like parks and wildlife refuges — inadequately safeguard biodiversity, he discourages setting acreage goals for conserving the world's diminishing biodiversity.
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LONDON — On the dreaded date of October 231, the weather report is usually one of the few, sweet refuges from the relentless onslaught of Halloween.
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The fact that refuges are getting closed down and the people working in them are under such strain is an absolute shame on our society.
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So preserving these canyon refuges will also help to conserve the region's fish, as well as the livelihoods of the fishers who depend on them.
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And it is now also preparing 200 meals a day, which are delivered to local groups, including elderly people's homes, homeless shelters and women refuges.
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However, there are only 1543 beds between two refuges—which may go some way in explaining why she was turned away when she sought help.
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"We had a client who fled with her young child from another borough in London," says Julia, who runs several domestic abuse refuges in London.
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Seeing animals at a distance in national parks and refuges and on responsible safaris can help generate income to protect wild animals and their habitats.
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages manatee refuges and sanctuaries, last year proposed reclassifying the West Indian manatee, which includes the Florida manatee.
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Demand for refuges already outstrips supply, with almost 200 women and children being turned away on one day in England this year, Women's Aid said.
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His administration also rolled back a regulation banning lead ammunition on wildlife refuges that was implemented on the last full day of the Obama presidency.
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The kitchen is also now preparing 200 meals a day, which are delivered to local groups, including elderly people's homes, homeless shelters and women's refuges.
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In America, where the wilderness is consistently and furiously intruded upon by invasive (human) species, the desert is one of the last relatively untouched refuges.
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But the furtive predators are not fenced in, so they commonly roam outside refuges and sometimes (less ideally) feed on domesticated cattle, goats, or pigs.
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The old hotel is now one of Seattle's largest but most temporary of homeless refuges — doomed to destruction next year as Amazon continues to build.
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It cost another $2.25 million to get Fish and Wildlife law enforcement officers to reinforce other refuges in hopes of preventing the occupation from spreading.
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LGBTQ bars, often seen as refuges for a marginalized community, are on on the decline nationwide, so queer parties have had to fill the gap.
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By 1990, some national wildlife refuges were being treated more like amusement parks and stockyards than places to conserve habitat, protect wildlife and experience nature.
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Campaigners and charities have welcomed aspects of the bill but some question its effectiveness in the face of funding cuts to refuges and other services.
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In Edinburgh, for example, a social housing deficit has more than doubled the time people are spending in refuges, from 155 days to 348 days.
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Beijing long feared that if it cut tariffs, manufacturers would flee China's surging wages and find lower-cost refuges in countries like Vietnam and Bangladesh.
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This is one reason why men seeking access to refuges and other services are screened, to make sure they do not pose a danger to others.
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The reintroduced population was intended to stay in federal wildlife refuges, but wolves aren't very keen on borders and immediately began to spread to private property.
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In 2015, 662 women were turned away from English domestic violence refuges because they had no recourse to public funds, up from 389 the year before.
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In April, Congress overturned a 2016 US Fish and Wildlife rule that prohibited the shooting of wolves and bears from airplanes on national refuges in Alaska.
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Refuges that will soon see restaffing include Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains, the Midway Atoll in Hawaii, and Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually in Washington, according to the email.
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If we allow Congress to make industrialization a purpose of our greatest wildlife refuge, can we successfully defend the conservation objectives of refuges in any state?
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Botswana had been one of the last great elephant refuges, largely spared the poaching crisis that has swept through much of Africa over the past decade.
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In Italy - in lockdown since March 9 - refuges and support centres say they are struggling to operate and often lack masks and hand sanitiser for staff.
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Its actions have made it easier to drill in wildlife refuges, slashed regulations meant to combat overfishing, and narrowed safety assessment requirements for potentially toxic chemicals.
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In March, Trump enthusiastically signed legislation that terminates the protection of black bears, grizzlies, wolves, foxes, wolverines and all other predators inhabiting national refuges in Alaska.
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The Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety sued over a 2018 decision to allow agriculture use of neonicotinoid pesticides at national wildlife refuges.
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That includes six wildlife refuges, six national parks, tribal lands, wilderness areas, and conservation areas — all of them managed by various federal agencies and tribal governments.
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Efforts such as these emergency refuges exemplify that smallness does not equate with simplicity; rather, these structures can confront even greater design challenges than gargantuan buildings.
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For Dr. Silverstein and others, the advent of specialization has created "safe refuges" for patients who for so long were without recourse to anything of the kind.
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I love the quirky Americanness of Anchorage, the tight-knit communities of both small and big villages, the wide expanses of tundra in the refuges, the mountains.
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Trans people in the UK already regularly use the bathrooms associated with our genders, and trans women already access women's refuges and many women's services without incident.
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"They're going to have hundreds more people who are going to have their property condemned, they're going to have wildlife refuges that are torn apart," he said.
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Mr Seiler draws cleverly on the fiction of enchanted islands or refuges, from Thomas More's "Utopia" and Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" to Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain".
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Under a new plan the government will spend 750m pesos ($50m) over three years to build 36 women's refuges and increase the electronic tagging of violent men.
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That agency has broad purview over energy policy, including oversight of offshore drilling, fracking regulations, protections for endangered species and supervision of national parks and wildlife refuges.
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Nevertheless, almost all societies accept the principle that, for the sake of women's safety, all men should be kept out of female changing rooms, toilets and refuges.
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For obvious reasons, these refuges are in secret locations, and the women will not have a fixed address, so they can't vote without putting themselves at risk.
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Opponents argue that the project would set a dangerous precedent for industrialization of national wildlife refuges and designated wilderness areas, and that it would irreparably harm Izembek.
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Gay bars are supposed to be refuges from intolerance; judgment-free zones that are, for many people, the only public places you can be truly, essentially, you.
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The rule would create new and expanded hunting and fishing opportunities at 6900 national wildlife refuges, increasing the number of refugees where hunting is allowed to 2628.
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And given the current political climate, where some of the arts have become refuges for the anti-Trump resistance, this state of affairs is unlikely to change.
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Roughly a third of national parks, reserves, refuges and the like now face intense and increasing human pressure, according to a recent study in the journal Science.
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And they were more likely to believe that immigrants and refuges entering the United States are a critical threat to the nation (55 percent to 16 percent).
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However, about 60% of all referrals to refuges were declined in 2016-17, normally due to a lack of available space, according to the charity Women's Aid.
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Women's Aid, a domestic violence charity, warned the British government's plans to cap housing benefits as part of welfare reform would have disastrous consequences for women's refuges.
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The Salvation Army, an international Christian charity, runs a number of refuges and said it was tailoring support for male slavery victims - including building and gardening projects.
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One indication lies in the annual Women's Aid survey, which gives a snapshot of the number of women in refuges on a randomly chosen chosen day each year.
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Nations such as Denmark have banned lead bullets for hunting, and former President Obama made one of his final commands a crackdown on their use in wildlife refuges.
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The context: Several studies published in the past few years raise doubt that deep-water corals can serve as refuges for coral species deemed vulnerable at the surface.
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Going Further If you are interested in animals and refuges and facilities around the world that take care of them, here are a few additional stories: Ringling Bros.
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Women seeking protection from abuse currently use housing benefit welfare payments to pay to stay in refuges but the government proposes to give grants to local councils instead.
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This Fund was intended to compensate communities for lost tax revenue from Federal land acquisitions, but fails to take into account the economic benefits refuges provide to communities.
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Voiding the Alaska Refuges Rule would not only jeopardize some of the most iconic species in North America, it would also abdicate federal authority over public trust resources.
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The attack displaced some of the most vulnerable Syrians — people who had already fled their homes and, often, other refuges, and were stuck near the border with Turkey.
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The agency told employees Tuesday that 38 refuges would be restaffed, in order to restore hunting and other visitor services — a decision Grijalva said he disagrees with. Rep.
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According to new research from the charity, 67 percent of domestic abuse refuges in England will close if proposed changes to the government's social security system go ahead.
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"The harvesting of wildlife on refuges is carefully regulated to ensure an equilibrium between population levels and wildlife habitat," according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).
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There isn't much focus on what is here: lush riparian corridors, subtropical wildlife refuges, backyards, golf courses, national parks, and, most important, vibrant—and vocal—Mexican American communities.
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A little respite from geopolitical and health crises can perhaps be found in five new design books, which demonstrate our ability to transform humble materials into enduring refuges.
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RE, a network of 80 centres, has asked the government to free up facilities for new domestic abuse cases to prevent them potentially introducing coronavirus into existing refuges.
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The Basankusu region of Congo, lying along a tributary of the legendary Congo River, is one of the last bonobo refuges and a source of many trafficked apes.
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"We live in a world now where we are constantly inundated by information and we have very few refuges that we have built into our lives," Carroll says.
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Most significantly, it planned to reel in the North Carolina wolves, and limit their territory to only within the National Wildlife Refuges where they were originally supposed to roam.
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In the 1970s some battered wives, fired up by second-wave feminism, left their husbands and set up refuges, making it easier for other abused women to join them.
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But if tipping points are more likely to be regional or local, maybe certain parts of the world—refuges from climate change and other pressures—will stay relatively safe.
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Other U.S. "Rust Belt" cities - which lost population as heavy industry declined - also have been floated as potential climate refuges, including New York state's Buffalo and Cincinnati in Ohio.
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Other U.S. "Rust Belt" cities - which lost population as heavy industry declined - also have been floated as potential climate refuges, including New York state's Buffalo and Cincinnati in Ohio.
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Another report confirmed that the agency has asked some Fish and Wildlife Service staff to return to 38 national wildlife refuges to oversee currently ongoing and upcoming hunting programs.
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"It doesn't make any sense," said Lloyd Jones, who retired from the FWS in 2013 after decades of working at multiple refuges across South Dakota as a dual-officer.
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Jones spent a lot of his time at refuges in North Dakota policing neighbors to make sure they were not draining the wetlands on or near the public land.
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Another report confirmed that the agency has asked some Fish and Wildlife Service staff to return to 85033 national wildlife refuges to oversee currently ongoing and upcoming hunting programs.
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But for most of human history, what a cloud was, physically, hardly mattered; instead, we understood clouds as psychic refuges from the mundane, grist for our imaginations, feelings fodder.
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Only fertile females that have mated — queens in waiting — seek refuges under the tundra, sometimes in old mouse burrows, where they outlast the winter in a state of torpor.
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The Interior Department, responsible for the nation's national parks, offshore drilling, wildlife refuges and much of its public land, would absorb a cut of $1.4 billion, or 10.9 percent.
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"We're already in the situation where women in need are being turned away from refuges, so we're not starting off from a strong position by any means," Neate explains.
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Many in the women's sector object to the government supporting projects like DVIP while refuges turn away vulnerable women from their door in the struggle to survive funding cuts.
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The latest casualty of the Congressional Review Act could be a US Fish and Wildlife Service rule that prohibits the wholesale killing of predators on wildlife refuges in Alaska.
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At the moment women seeking protection can use housing benefit welfare payments to pay to stay in refuges, but the government proposes to give grants to local councils instead.
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The ice age was at its peak 2000,21 years ago, and so different populations across Siberia and surrounding regions may have retreated into refuges where wild game still survived.
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Why does the report warn that "piecemeal efforts to protect individual species or to set up wildlife refuges will no longer be sufficient" and "transformative changes" will be required?
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There's nothing inherently wrong with that (smartphones are pretty great!) but I see no reason to consciously inject a device into one of the last refuges of the wandering mind.
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Many women's shelters, which are the only escape route for survivors like Anya, have been forced to close altogether: 7333 percent of UK refuges have been shut down since 2010.
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However, due to limited space at existing sanctuaries — such as Chimp Haven in Louisiana and Save the Chimps in Florida — the creation of new refuges like Project Chimps is crucial.
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It was designed and constructed by contemporary art producer Zébra3, a project commissioned by artist-architect collective Bruit de Frigo as part of their Refuges périurbains ("peri-urban shelters") campaign.
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Calm down, you're not actually angry about the gender pay gap or the systematic closure of domestic violence refuges under austerity—menstruation has just destroyed your capacity for rational thought.
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The plant can reach an impressive five feet tall — and it often grows in tidy groups, performing cost-free urban renewal as it transforms neglected fields into attractive green refuges.
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Filled with wood board figures sitting around a table and holding neon card sculptures, the meticulously designed room pays homage to the refuges that black people have created for themselves.
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The incident makes clear just how far the two intelligence committees — generally considered secretive refuges from the politics of Capitol Hill — have diverged over the course of their Russia investigations.
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The authors note that the devastation of nature has become so severe that piecemeal efforts to protect individual species or to set up wildlife refuges will no longer be sufficient.
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But, more fundamentally, they are seeking to undercut the idea of permanence that is the foundation for the protection of all America's wildlife refuges, national monuments, parks and protected areas.
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What's being considered The US Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages manatee refuges and sanctuaries, last year proposed reclassifying the West Indian manatee from endangered to threatened -- a less serious status.
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And many, many Westerners support conservation and wildlife refuges and wilderness protections — in part because well-managed public lands often earn more money through tourism and recreation than through resource extraction.
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The Place is one of those unpretentious neighborhood refuges, tucked away on a quiet little street, but there, like everywhere else in New York, you never know what you may find.
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Seeds for the humble potato are in particular demand by "dachniki" who flee the city in droves in the summer months for country refuges that range from shacks to stone houses.
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"Refuges will be faced with the awful reality of either turning more women and children away or closing their doors forever," Katie Ghose, head of Women's Aid, said in a statement.
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The Center for Biological Diversity is challenging the constitutionality of the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which Congress used to pass legislation that Trump signed repealing the Department of Interior's Refuges Rule.
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Refuges are essential to the survival of an astounding diversity of wildlife, providing millions of Americans access to compatible wildlife-dependent recreation and generating billions in annual revenue to local economies.
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The announcement from Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) deputy director Greg Sheehan said the rollback is to benefit land specifically purchased to become refuges to help waterfowl and migratory bird species.
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The Trump administration plans to restaff 2628 wildlife refuges during the government shutdown in order to continue to provide "opportunities, including hunting," according to an internal email obtained by The Hill.
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The announcement from Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) deputy director Greg Sheehan said the rollback is to benefit land specifically purchased to become refuges to help waterfowl and migratory bird species.
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"We are pleased the USFWS reversed this decision and restored this essential tool for waterfowl and wildlife management to our National Wildlife Refuges," the groups wrote in a joint statement Friday.
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In contrast, the Trump administration, beholden to the N.R.A., quickly overturned a regulation the Obama administration had issued that would have banned lead ammunition and fishing tackle in federal wildlife refuges.
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And animals that live in zoos, shelters and wildlife refuges are dependent on people who must decide which is less risky: waiting out the storm, or attempting a stressful, difficult relocation.
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I value my time on these refuges deeply, but I am also well aware that anything I see there — everything I see there — can also be seen by anyone who follows me.
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Last year, the Trump administration reversed an Obama-era rule barring the use of neonicotinoids, a chemical family that is one of the major culprits in colony collapse disorder, in wildlife refuges.
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The refusal to acknowledge trans women as women is fuelling rhetoric of paranoia and hyperbole as trans women's long-existing access to public toilets, changing rooms, refuges and hospital wards is disputed.
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This is a barrier to safety that women with mental health issues face throughout the country—only 23 percent of refuges provide in-house specialist mental health support, according to Women's Aid.
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Theodore Roosevelt, who established 51 such wildlife refuges around the country, sought to address the problem by setting aside what was then unclaimed land as a preserve and breeding ground for birds.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service calls Santa Ana the "crown jewel" of its 2654 refuges in the US. In March, my colleague Christophe Haubursin and I went down to see for ourselves.
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On the opposite side, international organizations and humanitarian aid groups are asking the Turkish government to open its boarders for the Syrian refuges who are escaping the chaos and carnage in Syria.
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Several others were environmental protections, including a rule, repealed this week, for protecting bears and wolves on federal refuges in Alaska from "predator control" techniques used by the state to accommodate hunters.
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He wants to help conserve 2000% of the planet by 503, adding that lands and waters are best protected when they are turned into public national parks, marine reserves, and wildlife refuges.
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Environmental impact studies are generally required under federal law whenever a proposal is made to build on public lands, including national forests, wildlife refuges and land managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
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"I've been to refuges in Germany like the one you showed in your piece and I have interviewed former child soldiers and young girls who were raped and enslaved by ISIS," Clooney said.
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Fed up with the systematic targeting of the LGBTQ population and their refuges, the queer-friendly nightclubs in New York—most of which had been closed down by that point—patrons fought back.
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Refuge spaces are funded through housing benefit, which means that migrants with no recourse to public funds (NRPF)—meaning they have no access to support from the state—are unable to access refuges.
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Small refuges from the Internet also existed in rural areas and even in the heart of some urban centers, mainly in the form of ethno-religious communities with strict sexual and behavioral prohibitions.
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A government spokesman said its aim was to "remove the need for vulnerable people to pay their rent at a difficult time in their lives" and to give refuges more certainty over funding.
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Forest tracts that span large gradients in rainfall, elevation and other environmental factors give species the opportunity to migrate or find local refuges during heat waves, fires, storms and other extreme weather conditions.
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"Wolf cubs shouldn't be slaughtered in their dens on the very wildlife refuges that are meant to protect biological diversity," Collette Adkins, an attorney and biologist at the center said in a statement.
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"Bulldozing beloved wildlife refuges won't make us safer, but it will enrage people across the country," Brian Segee, an attorney with the group, said last week after the House passed its funding measure.
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It created a system of national wildlife refuges, established protective mechanisms for wild and scenic rivers, protected wild horse and burro populations on public lands, and limited adverse human impacts on endangered species.
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Researchers think one of these refuges, name Wrangel Island, became the last mammoth hold-out; these tusked giants outlived their North American and European counterparts by some 7,000 years before going abruptly extinct.
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The priest said he had long kept "safe houses" across the city, secret apartments he offered as refuges to Irish Republicans on the lam and other political fugitives, as well as undocumented immigrants.
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The US gained about 370 million acres of mostly pristine wilderness — almost a third the size of the European Union — including 220 million acres of what are now federal parks and wildlife refuges.
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Interior has been under fire by Democrats and environmentalists for bringing on workers in many areas related to fossil fuel extraction during the shutdown, while parks, wildlife refuges and other Interior responsibilities suffer.
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But Polly Neate, the chief executive of Women's Aid, told me the cap is still a major concern for her organization, as it would make it difficult for refuges to offer any services.
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There's also the potential for environmental groups to raise objections and file lawsuits that seek to halt construction in sensitive areas, like the 115 wildlife refuges that are situated along the Rio Grande.
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The government has said its aim is to "remove the need for vulnerable people to pay their rent at a difficult time in their lives" and to give refuges more certainty over funding.
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They found that the threat to cheetahs, which now number about 7,000 worldwide, had been underestimated because of a focus on groups of the cats living in protected areas like parks and refuges.
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My wife and daughters and I arrived here in early August to hike the senderos, the trails of the refuges and reserves, and learn what we can of this place and its people.
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Ken Merritt, a former USFWS manager of the refuges in South Texas, said agency employees are limited in how much they can speak out on projects that may affect the parks they manage.
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One of these refuges was Wrangel Island, a mountainous island set in polar seas and so inaccessible that Baron von Wrangel, the explorer after whom it is named, never managed to reach it.
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"What is incredibly concerning is that no consideration has been given to the impact on women's refuges, schools, and clubs," Dan Flynn, the Australian Christian Lobby's acting state director, said in a statement.
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"For years those of us who are wildlife photographers, birdwatchers, and carers of wildlife, have been documenting the activities of you poachers and criminals around many of our nation's wildlife refuges," he wrote.
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The U.S. government holds title to about 21 million acres of land across the country, including national parks and forests, wildlife refuges and tribal territories stretching from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico.
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"I've been to refuges in Germany like the one you showed in your piece and I have interviewed former child soldiers and young girls who were raped and enslaved by ISIS," Clooney told Bruce.
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"We're looking to ways to build in the responsibility we have on climate change and the way that we approach, potentially, climate change refuges in the future amongst our neighbors," said the prime minister.
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He has instructed the EPA to unwind Obama's war on coal and signed a congressional resolution overturning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) seizure of Alaska's authority to manage wildlife on federal refuges.
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The U.S. government holds title to about 500 million acres of land across the country, including national parks and forests, wildlife refuges and tribal territories stretching from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico.
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We work in rape crisis centres, specialist black and minority ethnic women's organisations, disabled women's organisations, refuges, helplines, advice services, women's infrastructure organisations, community organisations, women's campaigning groups, universities, trade unions, women's networks and more.
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Vice President Pence said Saturday that the U.S. will honor an agreement with Australia to take in as many as 1,250 refuges, even though President Trump called it a "dumb" deal from the Obama era.
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Ashe's policy banned the use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle on all FWS wildlife refuges that allow hunting or fishing, as well as in all other hunting or fishing regulated by the agency elsewhere.
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But that was only one of several efforts in Congress and elsewhere to dismantle the nation's system of more than 18053 wildlife refuges and 38 wetlands totaling about 150 million acres of land and water.
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Starting with the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, our country must reject attempts to undermine our refuges and reaffirm our commitment to Roosevelt's legacy and the biological integrity, diversity and environmental health of the Refuge System.
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"My hope is that there are refuges that they can move to for at least some period of time and that might buffer some of the most dramatic effects of climate change," Dr. Lynch said.
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Overturning this finding (the petitioner is making a second bid to have his case heard at the Supreme Court) could have profound implications for land and water management practices across national forests, refuges and wilderness.
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That includes 23 percent of Oregon, 22 percent of Utah, and 21 percent of Nevada: This is mainly a western issue; the federal government only owns a smattering of parks and refuges east of the Mississippi.
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Paxton said at the time, while "Texans are compassionate to our core," he had significant security concerns about President Barack Obama's plan to admit refuges and the ability to run effective background checks on the refugees.
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A certain amount of agricultural activity has been permitted on some refuges, where typically a share of the crops is harvested by farmers for profit while another share is left as food or habitat for animals.
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The state's predator control policy is also counter to congressional mandates to conserve the ecological integrity of the National Wildlife Refuge System, and specifically to manage species and habitats on Alaska refuges for their natural diversity.
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"Less than one day in and Congressional Republicans are already greasing the skids to give away or sell off America's public lands, forests, and wildlife refuges," Jennifer Rokala, the group's executive director, said in a statement.
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The duo requested information on steps taken to make sure refuge managers are adequately protected by those who may wish to misuse the system and how full time officers will be distributed throughout the various refuges.
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At the heart of the increasingly toxic debate is whether trans rights are compatible with those of other women, particularly in terms of access to single-sex spaces, such as rape crisis centers or women's refuges.
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Congress overwhelmingly passed an omnibus bill Tuesday that strengthened America's commitment to its public lands — hundreds of millions of acres of open space that carry labels like national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, wilderness and recreation areas.
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And it is being watched closely because it could set the tone for how 640 million acres of public land owned by the federal government, including America's national parks, wildlife refuges and conservation areas, are managed.
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For 53 years, the bipartisan conservation act supported more than 40,000 conservation projects including expanding national parks, wildlife refuges and migration corridors, historic battlefields and the like, funded by a small fee on offshore oil drillers.
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But just about every acre set aside for a wildlife reserve takes an acre of potential farmland or grazing land off the table (some wildlife refuges tolerate grazing, but it often gets quickly out of control).
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We have the LWCF to thank for national parks like the Grand Canyon and Great Smoky Mountains, as well as national wildlife refuges, national forests, rivers and lakes, community parks, and trails in all 50 states.
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Public lands under federal management, including not just national monuments but also national forests, national parks, national wildlife refuges and other entities, deliver enormous value, of several sorts, to the communal and individual lives of Americans.
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Rape-crisis centres and domestic-abuse refuges carefully assess the risk related to every potential service-user, whether trans or not, before deciding between one-to-one counselling and group work, and whether to offer shared accommodation.
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There's no national data available on what percentage of these women would have sufficient evidence to qualify for special registration— but the Right to Vote Campaign found that 70 percent of women in Bristol refuges were ineligible.
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When our overlords and their lesser minions hide away in their refuges on the dark side of the moon, or indulge in their annual secret bacchanalia at Bohemian Grove, they don't worry about their skin suits misfiring.
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The takeover was part of a campaign that has its roots in the settlement of the West and the desire to transfer control of these lands — the national forests, parks, wildlife refuges and rangeland — to the states.
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This is clearly a step in the right direction, but this fluctuation in budgets underscores the fragility of funding—allocating money towards refuges is not ringfenced, and so can be chopped and changed from year to year.
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Conservationists said in Wednesday's notice of a pending lawsuit that neonics and pesticides to which biotech crops are immune are known to injure and kill imperiled creatures that rely on refuges whose fundamental purpose is wildlife conservation.
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Clooney, who is currently expecting twins with husband George Clooney, recently talked to BBC News about her decision to speak at the U.N. on behalf of people in German refuges she met with and heard accounts from.
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"I've been to refuges in Germany like the one you showed in your piece and I have interviewed former child soldiers and young girls who were raped and enslaved by ISIS," she told BBC News' Fiona Bruce.
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As the Oregon perpetrators reflect on their actions while behind bars, others are working to use politics and the courts to reinterpret the law and undermine our national wildlife refuges, national forests and other cherished public lands.
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Sources said the decision came as a shock to many of the people who have worked in the position, known as dual-function officers, including retirees who had spent decades in the role at their respective refuges.
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Each year about $900 million in royalties paid by energy companies drilling on the U.S. outer continental shelf go to the fund that pays for items from improving ball fields to expanding national parks and wildlife refuges.
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There was also James Watts, who often talked about his Christian faith and as secretary of the interior thought the US had too many parks and wanted to open up game refuges to oil and gas development.
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It is the idea that wild lands and waters are best conserved not in private hands, locked behind gates, but as public national parks, wildlife refuges and marine reserves, forever open for everyone to experience and explore.
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I see this daily in national parks, wildlife refuges, forests and monuments where nonprofit organizations partner with land management agencies increasingly to raise funds for infrastructure, conduct educational programs and tours, manage volunteers and perform scientific research.
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Deborah Cartwright, chief executive of Oasis Domestic Abuse Services in East Kent, which also runs two refuges, refers to one European woman who had no recourse to public funds under laws restricting access to immigrants from specific countries.
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Europe's main bourses started down as much as 3 percent, leaving investors with little option but to seek the traditional refuges of gold, the Japanese yen and one of the initial triggers for the selloff - benchmark government bonds.
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Farther afield on Klobben Island, 120 gray oceanfront cottages — built to mimic the overnight refuges fishermen used in the early 19853s — are positioned near a cliffside sauna cut to match the curvature of the surrounding red granite rocks.
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The permissible apartment size for the site was only about 1,500 square feet, but Rohan's plans claimed much more by designating large areas as fire refuges and fire decks, which he said could later be converted into rooms.
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In particular it will focus on helping vulnerable women who find themselves spending prolonged periods in refuges, due to a shortfall of accommodation, find homes, said Louise Swinden, an investment manager at Resonance, a fund manager behind WISH.
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Jose Maria Garcia, director of the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter, said he had been warning authorities since the Honduran caravan set out that migrant refuges were already operating at capacity in the border cities of Tijuana and Mexicali.
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A war of words has broken out between some transgender activists and women they call TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) about who should be let into women-only spaces, from domestic-violence refuges to women's literary and sports competitions.
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There is also no money for additional staff to cover sick days or leave, and redundancies have meant that her refuges can only be staffed two and a half days a week, leading to further problems on the ground.
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They contend that under the Constitution, the federal government can own only a small amount of land, for very limited purposes — which do not include wildlife refuges — and can acquire land in a state only with the state's consent.
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Amongst its far-reaching obligations, the Department of Interior is charged with managing our National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, and National Conservation Lands and for fulfilling the federal government's enormous (and legally established) responsibility to our Native American neighbors.
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Outdoor recreation, including visits to national parks, forests, wilderness areas, wildlife refuges and national heritage sites, has an annual economic output of $673 billion and support more than 4.3 million jobs annually, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Under the new plan, he worries that full-time officers won't be able to cover all the refuges that need policing and that the remaining refuge managers will now have to sit back and witness any violations they see.
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Murkowski's proposal harkens back to the bad old days for refuges, and even threatens to transfer management of the Arctic Refuge's Coastal Plain from the biologists at the nation's leading wildlife conservation agency to the Bureau of Land Management.
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Chinese investment in the United States and elsewhere has surged in recent years as the Chinese government encouraged companies to acquire technology and know-how abroad, and as Chinese companies and wealthy individuals sought safer refuges for their money.
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"We're now returning to the dark days where our government gives oil companies carte blanche to drill next to national parks, around wildlife refuges, and next to neighborhoods," said Greg Zimmerman, deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities.
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Those summers in the woods were the best of my life, and they have left me firmly dedicated to the roughly 600 million acres of national forests, grasslands, wildlife refuges and more that make up this country's conservation heritage.
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The U.S. government holds title to about 500 million acres of land across the country, including national parks and forests, wildlife refuges and tribal territories, overlaying billions of barrels of oil and vast quantities of natural gas, coal, and uranium.
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The move was applauded by groups that support hunting, including the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation and Delta Waterfowl, which said it provided the Fish and Wildlife Service with a list of refuges where it believed hunting could be opened or expanded.
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In the realm of the Fish and Wildlife Service, which oversees animal refuges all over the nation, the killing of the land mitigation rule could very well mean more damaged land, with little effort to minimize this harm, said McCoy.
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AQAP has been enmeshed in conflicts in impoverished Yemen for nearly 20 years — at times working with the government and at times facing crackdown, all the while building ties among tribes in the mountainous countryside to establish refuges and allies.
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There are 230 full-time law enforcement officers policing refuges and FWS officials say they plan to replace the vacant dual-officer positions with 15 full-time officers in 2019 as a way to modernize the enforcement ranks and save costs.
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The letter promised that the new structure would add more managers in the long term and that the revamping was not expected to negatively affect or close national parks, wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries or Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, specifically.
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On the Obama administration's last full day in office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe issued Director's Order 6900, banning the use of traditional lead ammunition on all federal lands including national parks, tribal lands, and national wildlife refuges.
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It successfully lobbied for a resolution overturning an Obama-era Interior Department rule restricting sport hunting on national wildlife refuges in Alaska, including banning hunting from planes and killing predators like bears and wolves while near their dens or their cubs.
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As head of FWS, Skipwith would be responsible for areas like the Trump administration's policies for importing trophies from elephant hunts, the nation's more than 85033 refuges and the administration's efforts to make Endangered Species Act enforcement better for industry.
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It hardly came as a surprise that within days of President Trump taking office the National Rifle Association unloaded on the Obama administration's science-based decision to begin the process of gradually getting the lead out of our most pristine refuges.
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For LGBTQ people, especially QTPOC, code switching is constant, background labor that is often invisible to heterosexual, cis folk, and the pockets of safety carved out by people like Mitch are all-too-rare refuges from the struggle to blend in.
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In a major speech in Washington to mark the 100th anniversary of the creation of the National Park Service, Jewell said federal lands — parks, wildlife refuges, forests, grazing areas and more — are facing numerous threats that are natural, manmade and political.
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As head of FWS, Skipwith would be responsible for areas like the Trump administration's policies for importing trophies from elephant hunts, the nation's more than 560 refuges and the administration's efforts to make Endangered Species Act enforcement better for industry.
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According to the proposed rule, opening new areas to hunting in the national wildlife refuges alone will raise $28503,22019 for the department in recreation-related expenditures, with a ripple effect yielding a total economic impact of approximately $1.6 million nationwide.
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Much of this work revolves around managing our nation's public lands, including more than 400 national parks, 560 national wildlife refuges, and the nearly 250 million acres of land divided among multiple uses that include energy development, recreation, and livestock grazing.
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The other is refuges, which is something that Robin Hanson has talked about — the idea of keeping a bank of human beings, for lack of a better term, who can start this whole thing over again should the worst happen.
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One of the banner service programs is a two week stint in Puerto Rico where volunteers offer hurricane relief and work on community projects like repairing rain forest trails and cleaning trash and debris from coastal wildlife refuges on Vieques Island.
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Indeed, there is growing concern worldwide over the level of regulation of zoos, wildlife parks and other animal refuges, particularly in developing nations, which may potentially attract travelers to situations in which the animals are abused for their entertainment, or worse.
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The bill protects donors to homeless shelters, food banks, battered spouse refuges, veterans assistance programs, animal rescues, organizations educating about and litigating to protect civil liberties, and any other tax-exempt cause or charity with a 501(c)(85033) designation.
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The letter promised that the new structure would add more managers in the long term and that the revamping was not expected to negatively affect or close national parks, wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries or Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, specifically.
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Yet people have trained dolphins for military purposes that can now perhaps be used to herd their tiny cousin into refuges, where humans can work feverishly to save them, as we have done with the California condor or black-footed ferret.
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Heiskell became a leader in the campaign that prompted Congress in 1972 to create the Gateway National Recreation Area, a 26,000-acre park of beaches and wildlife refuges on scattered sites around the entrance to the New York-New Jersey harbor.
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The Malheur refuge itself was established by Teddy Roosevelt, an avid outdoorsman who in 1908 set aside federal property around three Oregon lakes as a place for migratory birds to breed, one of more than 50 such refuges created during his presidency.
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Although British prime minister Theresa May recently announced £20 million of funding for women's refuges—described by one placard today as "a plaster over a haemorrhage"—the group say this isn't enough, and that it won't do anything to help the most vulnerable.
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The two parties reached a compromise in which the MX missile was funded, and Democrats got a lot less money for education and secured their defense and foreign cuts, along with a ban on oil and gas drilling on federal animal refuges.
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" Just yesterday, Trump's Secretary of the Interior celebrated the program, saying the refuges are "an incredible asset to the national economy" and "offer a place where families can carry on cherished outdoor traditions while making the important connection between people and nature.
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He has advocated for investing in our National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, and Bureau of Land Management lands, and has consistently supported State Wildlife Grants and other collaborative, proactive efforts to recover wildlife populations before species require more expensive and draconian measures.
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Barbara Wainman, assistant director for external affairs at FWS, said the decision will fund the paychecks of 28503 FWS employees to return to refuges in order to continue maintenance backlog projects, oversee scheduled upcoming hunts and prepare for the upcoming fire season.
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In the era before the Improvement Act, special interests would regularly pressure refuge managers to allow activities that had no business occurring in wildlife refuges, such as drilling, mining, grazing and high-impact recreation like jet skiing and off-road vehicle use.
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But in spite of DVIP's claim to center the survivor in everything they do, some in the domestic violence sector are angry that the government is sponsoring perpetrator services at a time when funding for refuges and survivor support has been slashed.
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Then, amid growing public concern, the USFWS finalized a rule prohibiting the Alaska Board of Game's "intensive predator management" practices, as they were called, from being used on national wildlife refuges—public lands in the US set aside to conserve plants and wildlife.
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The USFWS, tasked with taking care of these federally owned wildlife refuges, argued that their job is to maintain the natural diversity of these lands and that doing so means supporting viable populations of apex predators—key components of a healthy ecosystem.
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At a time when local refuges like Montauk at the very tip of Long Island have increasingly given up ground to the moneyed summertime crowd, it felt to the drinkers that, out east, the party's over for those who call it home.
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Barbara Wainman, assistant director for external affairs at FWS, said the decision will fund the paychecks of 244 FWS employees to return to refuges in order to continue maintenance backlog projects, oversee scheduled upcoming hunts and prepare for the upcoming fire season.
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Dr. Sladen and Mr. Lishman found that orphaned birds whose parents were unable to teach them to fly could be guided from breeding grounds to winter refuges, and would remember how to get home and to make the round trip the next year.
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In the Rio Grande Valley, the 70 miles of existing wall go through the Nature Conservancy's Southmost Preserve, several state Wildlife Management Areas, sections of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuges, and Audubon's Sabal Palm Sanctuary, Audubon magazine has reported.
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"Refuges are chronically underfunded; the Women's Aid Annual Survey 2015 found that domestic abuse services say that the biggest challenge they faced over the past year was related to lack of, or uncertainty of, funding," says Women's Aid chief executive Polly Neate of the findings.
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The roughly 47 officers sent from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Park Service (NPS) and Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for three-week temporary posts along the border exceed the 41 full-time staff stationed at the parks and refuges adjacent to Mexico.
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The White House and some members of Congress want you to believe that a key part of the answer to paying for tax cuts can be found in the rich biological heart of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — the crown jewel of America's wildlife refuges.
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Other CRAs that have seen significant Republican defections include a rule to protect bears in Alaska's national wildlife refuges; a rule requiring companies to post records online of workplace injuries and illnesses; and a rule creating disclosure requirements for oil companies operating in foreign countries.
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But, in connection with Trump's order, it starts the process of repealing four of Interior's oil and natural gas drilling rules for federal land: one on fracking, one limiting methane emissions, one on drilling in national parks and one on drilling in wildlife refuges.
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He took credit on behalf of Interior for the United States becoming the world's largest oil and natural gas producer and pointed to milestones like Interior law enforcement officers apprehending migrants at the southern border and opening more wildlife refuges to hunting and fishing.
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Consider: Roosevelt created 140 national wildlife refuges; established 29 national forests and 29 national parks and monuments; and enrolled 203 million men in the Civilian Conservation Corps, which built 13,000 miles of trails, planted more than two billion trees and paved 125,000 miles of roads.
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Botswana: Researchers using aerial surveys and field visits determined that fresh elephant carcasses in the country increased by nearly 600 percent from 2014 to 2018, confirming fears that the illegal ivory trade had found its way to one of Africa's last great elephant refuges.
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BARCELONA/LONDON, March 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - D omestic abuse charities in Europe have called for hotels and holiday lets to be turned into refuges as they warned that coronavirus lockdowns would lead to a massive jump in the numbers of women fleeing violence.
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A startling study from 2016 of fish in U.S. wildlife refuges in the Northeast found that 60 to 100 percent of all the male smallmouth bass studied had eggs growing in their testes—a startling feminization—which researchers linked to endocrine disrupters in the waters.
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By that year, he also wants 50 percent of US lands and waterways to be under federal protection; he proposes achieving this by expanding the current borders of natural parks and monuments, by adding new wildlife refuges, and by helping cities expand their parks.
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With their constellation of think tanks and advocacy groups, these donors have promoted the so-called land transfer movement, an effort to give Republican state governments control of most, if not all, of our national forests, wildlife refuges and Bureau of Land Management parcels.
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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed a 2018 ruling by a federal judge in Anchorage, who had said that Congress' use of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to dismantle the Refuges Rule was proper.
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As the British government has been at pains to point out, those reforms will have no impact on where trans people can and can't go, which has been based since 2010 on an effective self-declaration system with exemptions for single-sex spaces such as women's refuges.
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A separate analysis by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, conducted during the Obama administration, found that Trump's proposed border would "potentially impact" 111 endangered species, as well as 108 species of migratory birds, four wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries, plus an unknown number of protected wetlands.
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Allen, however, had a slightly different idea, and in The Biosphere Catalogue, a 22 booklet published through Bass' Synergetic Press, he imagined a Biosphere archipelago called Refugia that could be used as refuges for the elite in the aftermath of nuclear war or widespread ecological collapse.
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The document calls for tighter standards for those seeking U.S. asylum, denial of federal grants to "sanctuary cities" that serve as refuges for illegal immigrants, and a requirement that employers use an electronic verification system known as "E-Verify" to keep illegal immigrants from securing jobs.
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The Interior Department has doubled the number of law enforcement officers it's sending to the border, according to new data reviewed by The Hill, putting police who usually patrol national parks and wildlife refuges in the new and unfamiliar role of dealing with a surge in immigration.
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The only way to save upward of 90 percent of the rest of life is to vastly increase the area of refuges, from their current 15 percent of the land and 3 percent of the sea to half of the land and half of the sea.
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Because the secretary of Interior is in charge of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the Arctic Refuge and other National Wildlife Refuges, a Palin appointment would put the fragile tundra of the Arctic Coastal Plain directly in the cross hairs of the oil industry.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than two women were killed by men every week in Britain last year, most of them by a partner or an ex, a charity said on Monday as it warned proposals to change funding for refuges would place more women in danger.
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The documents call for tighter standards for those seeking U.S. asylum, denial of federal grants to "sanctuary cities" that serve as refuges for illegal immigrants, and a requirement that employers use an electronic verification system known as "E-Verify" to keep illegal immigrants from securing jobs.
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Regulations set for the House's chopping block this week would determine states' abilities to conduct drug testing programs for people applying for unemployment insurance; establish how states can set up payroll deduction savings programs for private sector workers; and clarify conservation mandates for national wildlife refuges in Alaska.
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Since its creation in 1964, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has been responsible for the creation and maintenance of ballfields, community trails, national forests, and wildlife refuges, including some of our nation's most iconic national parks in the Rocky Mountains, Grand Canyon and Great Smoky Mountains.
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Pyongyang is where North Korea's most privileged citizens live, and while the presence of the beer halls there is a result of the emergence of a wealthier middle class in the city, the relative low cost of the drink means that they are not refuges of the absolute elite.
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Editorial When historians get around to measuring President Obama's record of protecting America's public lands from commercial development — its national monuments, parks, forests, wilderness and wildlife refuges — they are likely to rank him high on a list of luminaries that includes both Roosevelts, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
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Sohier said that the photos for her new project show different kinds of rescues, from farm animals to wild animals kept in refuges, all over the US.You can buy a copy of "Animals" from the publishing house Stanley Barker, and see more of Sohier's work on her website.
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For the past few weeks, Colorado locals have been noting that these gorgeous insects, which are similar in appearance to the famous monarch butterfly, are passing through the state in higher-than-average numbers as they make their annual pilgrimage to winter refuges in the southwest United States and Mexico.
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"We are concerned that removing dual status officers, even if they are replaced by some full-time officers, will lead to less geographic coverage for the more than 560 refuges across the United States to and to an increase in violations in the System," the lawmakers wrote to Chief Cynthia Martinez.
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The Department of the Interior now claims that "an estimated 700" grizzlies inhabit the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem — a vast wildlands centered on the world's first national park but also including Grand Teton National Park, portions of six national forests, three national wildlife refuges and other federal, state, private and Indian lands.
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For more than two decades, the group has worked to try to create a wildlife corridor along the winding river, and its members had planned to sell the 211 acres to the US Fish and Wildlife Service to connect two existing wildlife refuges, said board member and attorney Paul Gaytan.
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Gibraltar, with its comparatively stable climate, would have been one of their last refuges, he explained, and he likened the population there to critically endangered species today, like snow leopards or imperiled butterflies: living relics carrying on in small, fragmented populations long after they've passed a genetic point of no return.
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Tuesday, the president signed an executive order to overturn the Clean Power Plan, undo the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands, eliminate federal agencies factoring in the impact of climate change in their decision making, and opening up even more public lands like our National Wildlife Refuges to fossil fuel production.
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From local residents of rural Harney County to national environmental groups, from sportsmen to local Shoshone officials, leaders from across the breadth of the political spectrum recognized the militants' occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuges as the unpatriotic and un-American acts of a lunatic fringe, and called for them to leave.
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The Bundys demanded that federal agencies sweep aside commonsense regulations that limit destruction of national forests, Bureau of Land Management lands and National Wildlife Refuges to accomplish their stated goal of freeing up corporate interests to wring every possible dollar out of our public lands, regardless of the destruction to lands and wildlife.
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They not only encompass our national forests, national wildlife refuges and wilderness areas; they also provide us with access to some of the most awe-inspiring hunting, angling and recreational opportunities in the world — majestic places where the game and fish are plentiful, where memories are made and where lifelong traditions are formed.
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LWCF is our nation's most important conservation and recreation program, which for more than 50 years has protected areas within and near national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges from being sold off to the highest bidder; preserved wildlife habitat; and funded ballfields and playgrounds for all communities to easily access the outdoors.
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The former Navy SEAL commander, an avid hunter and angler, emerged as a surprise pick to head the department in part because he has embraced federal stewardship of national parks, forests and refuges - rejecting the Republican party's official position to sell off acreage to states that might prioritize drilling, mining and grazing in some areas.
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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, uses social media as part of the screening process for Syrian refuges, but only when the person is flagged because of a hit in an intelligence database or when questions are raised during an interview with immigration officials.
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"By exonerating the leaders of this illegal occupation of federal property, the jury's misguided verdict will encourage further attacks by lawless individuals on our wildlife refuges, national forests and national parks and the dedicated federal employees that manage them for the benefit of all Americans," Defenders of Wildlife President and CEO Jamie Rappaport Clark said.
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With over 600,000 Syrian refuges in Jordan — 85 percent of which live in cities, according to the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) — and many adults prevented from working by injury suffered during war in their homeland or the threat of being caught, families are sending children as young as five into the workplace.
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" — Fair Play for Women Further in the letter, the women say they come from different walks of life (including mothers, members of the armed forces, unemployed and disabled) and are being admonished for saying "that males cannot become females," that "women do not have penises" and "that women's spaces such as refuges should be safe havens for women only.
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Trans-exclusionary radical feminists, known as TERFs (though they consider this term a slur), believe that reforming the GRA would allow trans women, whom they characterize as men in disguise, access to women's bathrooms, women's refuges (shelters), and other women's spaces — beliefs explained in the literature handed out by anti-trans protesters at Pride on Saturday.
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"We have significant public lands along the border that the secretary has authority over, whether it's park lands or I believe there are some refuges and in the course of their job, enforcement officers are charged with making sure there is a level of safety in parks," said Murkowski, chairwoman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
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"If we stay on this trajectory, 28503 years from now, national parks and wildlife refuges will be like postage stamps of nature on a map, isolated islands of conservation with run-down facilities that crowds of Americans visit like zoos to catch a glimpse of our nation's remaining wildlife and undeveloped patches of land," Jewell said.
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"Make no mistake: America is wide awake to these assaults and will not let a bully like Chairman Bishop use hard-earned taxpayer dollars to ensure oil, gas and mining industries can lay waste to the forests, parks and refuges that belong to us all," Matt Keller, senior director of conservation with the Wilderness Society, said in a statement.
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"If we stay on this trajectory, 100 years from now, national parks and wildlife refuges will be like postage stamps of nature on a map, isolated islands of conservation with run-down facilities that crowds of Americans visit like zoos to catch a glimpse of our nation's remaining wildlife and undeveloped patches of land," Jewell said.
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"The federal court decision halts the planned desecration of the Izembek Refuge Wilderness and wildlife and is yet another blow to Interior's aggressive policy of giving away public lands to serve special interests at the expense of the American people," David C. Raskin, president of Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges, one of the plaintiffs, said in a statement.
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While it may be comforting for many to think that the Trump administration has been entirely ineffective in delivering on his most symbolic and most hateful campaign promises, the truth is far more alarming: As you read these words, towering walls of concrete and steel are being constructed across national monuments, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas.
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The ruling came in a lawsuit that was filed by Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges and other wildlife advocacy organizations, against the US Department of Interior and its Acting Secretary (who at the time was Ryan Zinke, but he has now been replaced by David Bernhardt), the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the King Cove Corporation.
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According to a US Fish and Wildlife Service provisional report released last year, a Trump wall covering the entire 2,000-mile border, with approximately 1,000 feet of developed space on either side,would potentially impact 111 endangered species, 108 species of migratory birds, four wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries, and an unknown number of protected wetlands.
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According to a US Fish and Wildlife Service provisional report released last year, a Trump wall covering the entire 2,000-mile border, with approximately 1,503 feet of developed space on either side,would potentially impact 111 endangered species, 108 species of migratory birds, four wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries, and an unknown number of protected wetlands.
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The expansion of the marine reserve and Mr. Obama's trip to the island, named for its location about halfway between Asia and North America, were part of an effort by the president to showcase his commitment to combating climate change and protecting lands and waters that can serve as refuges as the planet increasingly experiences the effects of global warming.
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Taking immediate action to reauthorize and fully fund the LWCF, appropriately referred to as America's best conservation and recreation program, is another crucial element to ensure that Americans can visit our national parks in addition to national forests, wildlife refuges, and over 85033,000 state and local park projects that support recreation centers and outdoor spaces in communities across the country.
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"It's simply exasperating to see National Parks' maintenance accounts being raided at the same exact time as so many of us are pleading with Congress to fix the [maintenance backlog] for our Parks, Wildlife Refuges, BLM lands, and National Forests," Collin O'Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, said in a statement, referring to the Bureau of Land Management.
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"They are the last refuges of what made it to the Mekong Delta, natural harbors for a specialized kind of vegetation that has very little timber value, sanctuaries of rare species," said J. Andrew McDonald, a botany professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, who is spearheading the plant collection project with support from the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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It's one of the key issues that has animated Maeve McClenaghan, an award winning investigative journalist with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, who worked on Dying Homeless, TBIJ's year-long campaign to chart the number of homeless deaths in the UK. Maeve started working on the project in early 2018, just after wrapping up a long investigation into domestic violence refuges, she tells me over the phone.
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We are devoted to defeating the egregious, irreparable impacts that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's proposed border wall will have on nature, while protecting our national wildlife refuges and national monuments that are under siege.
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More news from the administration … Controversial blog posts written by a senior Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official have plunged the divided agency into a bitter battle over racial discrimination (The Hill) … The Trump administration's lawsuit against California has opened a new front in the net neutrality wars (The Hill) … The Trump administration has abruptly ended a key law enforcement program aimed at protecting wildlife refuges (The Hill).
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Henry Cuellar, Vicente Gonzalez and Filemon VelaFilemon Bartolome VelaFish and Wildlife Service working with Border Patrol to protect animal refuges amid border wall construction: report Majority of Hispanic Caucus votes against spending bill with wall funds A dozen House Democrats call on EU ambassador to resign amid Ukraine scandal MORE, instructing CBP not to build the wall in Santa Ana and other neighboring nature parks.
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GOP committees churned out bill after bill to cut research funding for renewable energy by 50 percent, block rules on coal pollution, block rules on oil spills, block rules on pesticide spraying, accelerate oil and gas drilling permits on public land, prohibit funding for creation or expansion of wildlife refuges, cut funding for the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program, and ... well, there are 61 items on the list.
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Interior Secretary Ryan ZinkeRyan Keith ZinkeNew policy at Interior's in-house watchdog clamps down on interactions with press Overnight Energy: EPA proposes scrapping limits on coal plant waste | Appointee overseeing federal lands once advocated selling them | EPA lifts Obama-era block on controversial mine Latest appointee overseeing federal public lands once advocated to sell them MORE on Friday allowed for new or expanded hunting or fishing at 30 wildlife refuges.
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Interior Secretary Ryan ZinkeRyan Keith ZinkeNew policy at Interior's in-house watchdog clamps down on interactions with press Overnight Energy: EPA proposes scrapping limits on coal plant waste | Appointee overseeing federal lands once advocated selling them | EPA lifts Obama-era block on controversial mine Latest appointee overseeing federal public lands once advocated to sell them MORE signed an order Thursday overturning a ban on using lead ammunition on wildlife refuges.
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GOP committees churned out bill after bill to cut research funding for renewable energy by 50 percent, block rules on coal pollution, block rules on oil spills, block rules on pesticide spraying, accelerate oil and gas drilling permits on public land, prohibit funding for creation or expansion of wildlife refuges, cut funding for the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program, and ... well, there are 20153 items on the list.
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Yellowstone Park lies embedded in a Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, a larger zone of contiguous, wildish landscape, encompassing 10 times as much area as the park itself and including portions of five national forests, three national wildlife refuges, Grand Teton National Park and parcels administered by the Bureau of Land Management — all of that federal — as well as some state and private lands and part of the Wind River Indian Reservation.
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Martha Harbison, 45, journalistCost per month: $60 for gas, pizza, and beerCost per year: ~$2000 for birding tripsTime per month: 10-503 hoursTime per year: 500 hoursCost for a beginner who's looking to get into it: $30 for a field guide, $70 for good budget binoculars Origin story: My parents are birders, so I grew up driving through wildlife refuges and looking at a lot of duck butts.
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The move comes as Interior Secretary Ryan ZinkeRyan Keith ZinkeNew policy at Interior's in-house watchdog clamps down on interactions with press Overnight Energy: EPA proposes scrapping limits on coal plant waste | Appointee overseeing federal lands once advocated selling them | EPA lifts Obama-era block on controversial mine Latest appointee overseeing federal public lands once advocated to sell them MORE has increased access for more hunters and anglers across various wildlife refuges.
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Filemon VelaFilemon Bartolome VelaUnivision rolls out new ads urging Hispanics to take part in census Democratic candidates gear up for a dramatic Super Tuesday Fish and Wildlife Service working with Border Patrol to protect animal refuges amid border wall construction: report MORE (D) said he has worked on the census with authorities in his district at the federal, state and local levels to raise awareness, but that federal participation in 2020 was subpar.
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