Atlantic Flyway CouncilThe Atlantic Flyway Council is composed of the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia; the Canadian territory of Nunavut and provinces of Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Quebec; plus the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Atlantic Flyway Council contains representatives (usually administrators) from all the agencies that have management responsibility for migratory bird resources in the Flyway. The Council determines actions required for sound migratory game bird management and makes recommendations to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. |
NYDH: Decisions about migratory wildlife MUST be made with a continental perspective using "best professional judgment", not guided by a local politics driven by animal rights agendas. Decisions about non-migratory alien species which IMPACT native migratory wildlife must ALSO be made with a continental perspective guided by science. Visit our petition page often and sign NYDH's open petitions! After you sign share them with your hunting and conservation networks, encourage others to sign and share as well!
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- When Bruce Babbitt became Secretary of the Interior he told conservationists not to expect him to do the right thing, but to make him do the right thing by bringing needed political pressure. (The Department of the Interior or DOI; houses the US Fish and Wildlife Service; therefore ultimately administers federal Pitman Robertson funds.)
- Many species move across state, tribal, provincial, and national boundaries, requiring interstate and international agreements and partnerships to manage (conserve) these species.
- Federal agencies, in cooperation with state and tribal agencies, are responsible for managing migratory fish and wildlife and federally listed threatened and endangered species, and for regulating wildlife trade. In Canada, federal, provincial, and territorial agencies share responsibility for federally listed endangered species.
- “To build the political support and pressure needed to achieve a goal; too often conservationists take for granted existing power relationships rather than recognizing the need to change them, or they ignore questions of power all together, believing factual information will persuade decision makers whether they are national leaders or communities”. David Johns, School of Government, Portland State University; co-founder of Wildlands Network and Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative