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Updates from December, 2009
Stehn Updates Crane Count to 244
December 18th, 2009 | TAP UpdatesTom Stehn, Whooping Crane Coordinator at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, released his latest whooping crane report on Tuesday. Stehn now estimates that 244 of the cranes have been accounted for after the migration: “Since my last census flight on 12/10/09, I have received confirmed […]
ROCKPORT PILOT
Aransas Project files notice to sue TCEQ officials
December 11th, 2009 | TAP In The NewsThe Aransas Project (TAP) filed a notice of intent to sue several officials of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in their official capacity for illegal harm and harassment of whooping cranes at and adjacent to Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in violation of Section […]
SAN MARCOS DAILY RECORD
Suit filed to protect rare birds gets local support
December 11th, 2009 | TAP In The NewsThe death last winter of nearly a tenth of the only natural flock of whooping cranes has prompted a coastal group to sue some state officials in federal court for “illegal harm and harassment” of the federally-endangered birds. The death last winter of nearly a […]
CBC NEWS
Whooping crane deaths to trigger Texas lawsuit
December 11th, 2009 | TAP In The NewsAn environmental coalition in Rockport, Texas, has filed a notice of intent to sue officials from a state agency over the deaths of 23 whooping cranes that migrated there for winter 2008-09 from Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta. Whooping cranes are Canada’s most […]
USFWS Whooper Update December 10, 2009
December 10th, 2009 | TAP UpdatesTom Stehn, Whooping Crane Coordinator at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, released this whooping crane report on 12/10/2009. This is the third aerial census of the 2009-10 winter season, taken from a helicopter flying above the refuge and surrounding areas. Stehn details that 238 of […]
CANADA.COM
Texas agency sued over Canadian whooping crane deaths
December 10th, 2009 | TAP In The NewsCanada’s most endangered species is at the centre of a U.S. legal battle after 23 whooping cranes from a Canadian national park — nearly 10 per cent of the last natural flock in existence — died of starvation last winter in Texas due to alleged […]
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
Lawsuit focuses on element missing in water debate
December 10th, 2009 | TAP In The NewsIn a perfect world, an expected federal lawsuit seeking to protect the endangered whooping crane would finally bring resolution to a nearly 20-year effort to better regulate Edwards Aquifer pumping rights. Downstream users, already ensured water as a result of the aquifer fight, would acquiesce […]
VICTORIA ADVOCATE
Aransas Project to sue Texas agency
December 9th, 2009 | TAP In The NewsROCKPORT – A day after filing a notice of intent to sue the state, a Houston environmental lawyer said whooping cranes died needlessly. “We’ve made a scientific determination that the mismanagement of the river by the State of Texas, particularly the Texas Commission on Environmental […]