NEW YORK— National environmental groups filed a lawsuit today in the Southern District of New York challenging the Trump administration’s reinterpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which ...

In 2018—the centennial of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which protects more than 1,025 species—we’ll take our coverage of topics affecting birds to a new level. In this issue we launch a ...

Yet the Trump administration sought to redefine and drastically weaken the scope of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. One of the nation’s first conservation laws, the Act was enacted to implement U.S.

Another specious argument made during the listening sessions suggested that birds covered by the Endangered Species Act or the Migratory Bird Treaty Act should be exempt from the protections of the ...

It is a shared international commitment. This is exemplified by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, a landmark piece of legislation signed between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. that safeguards migratory ...