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Scientists call for migratory bird protections, end of Trump rule

February 25, 2021

Amanda Rodewald, senior director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, comments on migratory bird protections and the Biden administration's review of a Trump-era restriction to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

Lab of Ornithology
Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Agriculture and Life Sciences

Scientists issue rebuke of new EPA rule that compromises U.S. waters

August 13, 2020

Amanda Rodewald, senior director of conservation science with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, comments on the impacts from a new Environmental Protection Agency rule that strips federal Clean Water Act protections for U.S. waters.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Lab of Ornithology

New U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule undermines mission to protect birds

July 16, 2020

Amanda Rodewald, professor and senior director of conservation science with Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology, comments on a new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule the excludes "incidental take" from Migratory Bird Treaty Act protections.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Lab of Ornithology
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

Trump pollution control cuts ‘not consistent with science,’ will cost Americans

January 23, 2020

Catherine Kling, an environmental economist, and Amanda Rodewald, a conservation scientist, comment on the Trump Administration's plans to remove environmental protections for streams and wetlands.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

WOTUS rollback threatens half of US wetlands, fifth of streams

September 13, 2019

Amanda Rodewald and Brian Rahm comment on the rollback of the WOTUS rule that expanded protection for U.S. waterways.

Law and Policy
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Oil development at Arctic Refuge would forever alter sensitive ecosystems

November 21, 2017

Amanda Rodewald, a professor of ornithology and director of conservation science at Cornell University, says the tundra swan, Pacific loon and northern pintail would be just a few of the more than 200 bird species at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that would be impacted by activities associated with oil development.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

A planet unsuitable for wildlife is a planet unfit for people

October 31, 2018

Global wildlife population declined sixty percent over the past four decades, according to the Living Planet Report 2018, released this week by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Amanda Rodewald says the report should be considered as a warning for people to change habits before making our planet unsuitable for people, too. Steven Osofsky says while using nature’s resources at a rapid rate may help global societies flourish now, we face significant negative impacts over time.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Despite devastation from forest fires, ecosystems rise from the ashes

October 24, 2017

The California wildfires have left a trail of devastation in their wake, killing dozens of people and burning hundreds of acres across the state. Amanda Rodewald, an expert in wildlife ecology and conservation biology at Cornell University, says that ­­– as efforts continue to extinguish new fires and clean-up the environment – we must remember that fire also is a natural process and essential to maintaining fire-dependent ecosystems.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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