required restoration of birds and game to areas where they are extinct. requires a federal permit to transport live or dead animals or their body parts across state borders.
What is the Lacey Act
100
establishes US Fish and Wildlife Service which writes harvest policies for commercial fisheries and protects fish population.
What is the Fish and Wildlife Act
100
prohibits the taking, possession, harassment, transport of and commerce in bald and golden eagles, their body parts and eggs.
What is the Eagle Protection Act
100
USA will assist in the conservation and protection of African elephants by sending money to CITES and by banning import and export of ivory.
What is the African Elephant Conservation Act
100
sets annual quotas for the harvest of whales. no enforcement powers and not all countries belong to this commission. since 1986 has banned all whaling but some countries still hunt and kill whales.
What is the International Whaling Commission
200
investigates and controls mammalian predators, rodents and birds. amended 1991 to prevent introduction of brown tree snake.
What is the Animal Damage Control Act
200
moratorium on use of large scale drift nets because of high mortality of sea birds, sea turtles, sea mammals and non-target fish.
What is the Drift-net Act
200
protection and management of wild horses and burros that live on US public lands
What is the Wild free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act
200
provides funds to CITES and other countries for the conservation of rhinos and tigers
What is the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act
200
prohibits the taking of fur seals and sea otters. exceptions are made for Native Americans, Aleuts and Eskimos.
What is the Fur Seal Act
300
defines alien species and prevents their introduction to USA, mainly Hawaii, including plants and plan pests that might travel through mail
What is the Alien Species Prevention and Enforcement Act
300
encourages states to develop conservation plans for non-game fish and wildlife. states may be reimbursed for a percentage of the costs.
What is the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act aka Non-Game Act
300
unless otherwise permitted, it is unlawful to hunt, capture, kill, import or export migratory birds, nests, eggs, or any product of the bird. treaty between USA, Canada, Japan, Mexico and former USSR.
What is the Migratory Bird Treaty
300
requires immediate measures to conserve marine mammals including pinnipeds, cetaceans, manatees, sea otters, polar bears and walrus. requires an OSY within the carrying capacity of the habitat. 1994 amend: prohibited the harassment of non-endangered marine mammals (eg photographers) but allows for the import of polar bear trophies.
What is the Marina Mammal Protection Act
300
manages all fish living over or migrating through the continental shelf (in the zone from 5 to 320 km off US shores). fish are a public resource and quotas will be set for harvest.
What is the Magnuson Fishery Management and Conservation Act
400
international agreement signed by 80 countries that regulates the trade of species at risk including live animals and plants, and products used for food, leather, wood, curios, and medicines. as of 2005, 169 countries have at least accepted this treaty. no enforceable powers.
What is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species aka CITES
400
defines OSY for all harvested marine animals, not just fish; protects marine nursery habitats and mandated protection and restoration of fish stocks.
What is the Sustainable Fisheries Act
400
prohibits shooting or harassing animals from aircraft except in special cases: protection of livestock or human life as authorized by a federal state or permit.
What is the Airborn Hunting Act
400
requires that national forests be available for recreation, grazing, timber harvest, watershed, and fish and wildlife; with sustainable yield.
What is the Multiple-use Sustained-yield Act
400
what does CITES stand for?
What is Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
500
prohibits the import or trade of any living or product made from an endangered/threatened species unless it is used for an approved scientific purpose or to enhance the survival of the particular species. requires a full recovery plan for all endangered species.bans or requires modification of any project that can harm and endangered/threatened species or its critical habitat.
What is the Endangered Species Act
500
the US president may ban imports from countries that ignore fishing quotas. amended in 1978 to ban products from any country that ignores conservation programs for any endangered/threatened species.
What is the Pelly Amendment aka Fishermen's Protective Act
500
requires waterfowl hunters to purchase a duck stamp each session that they hunt. money is used for conservation of migratory waterfowl. treaty between USA and Canada.
What is the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act aka Duck Stamp Act
500
requires an interdisciplinary assessment and management program for each unit in all national forests for multiple use, sustained-yield.