http://wildlife.pr.erau.edu/database/on-line.php?go_to=select_iv.php
Provides public access to information about incidents of collisions between airliners and birds. Select by bird species and state. The Federal Aviation Administration had proposed that such information be restricted but was overruled by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. From the Transportation Department.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/FDS/2009/04Apr/FDS09D01/FDS09D01.pdf
Describes how byproducts of making ethanol have become more valued in the livestock-feed market but warns about limitations which affect how they are handled, stored, and used. From the Economic Research Service
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5811a1.htm?s_cid=mm5811a1_x
Estimates that an average of 86,000 injuries from falls per year are associated with dogs and cats. Dogs account for 88% of the injuries. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
https://statistics.defra.gov.uk/esg/publications/auk/2008/default.asp
Covers key events in 2008, income, prices, commodities, foreign trade, animal health and welfare, organic farming, the environment, and key agricultural statistics for European Union member states. From the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40185_20090225.pdf
Discusses oversight issues and legislation introduced in the 111th Congress to address specific concerns related to how the Endangered Species Act is implemented and how endangered and threatened species are managed. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by OpenCRS.org.
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/postpn325.pdf
Examines the current status of wild deer in the United Kingdom, their ecological, economic, and social impacts, and legislation on their management. From the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/eib43/
Details the nature, causes, and effects, environmental and other, of structural changes toward larger and more specialized farms for livestock production. From the Economic Research Service
http://www.fda.gov/cvm/Guidance/fguide187.pdf
Explains the process by which FDA is regulating GE animals and provides a set of recommendations to producers of GE animals to help them meet their responsibilities under the law. From the Food and Drug Administration.
Presents the revised final plan for saving the loggerhead sea turtle in the North Atlantic. A separate plan for saving U.S. Pacific populations of the loggerhead was approved in 1998. From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-28986.pdf
Annual updated listing of plants and animals that are regarded as candidates for addition to the Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants. Covers mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, and flowering plants. From the Fish and Wildlife Service.
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/eiyp/pdf/eiyp2008.pdf
Covers information on climate change, air and water quality, recycling and waste, and status of wildlife. From the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
