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Forest Reserve Act
Sets aside forest reserves from the land in the public domain. -
Lacey Act
Prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been illegally taken, possessed, transported, or sold. -
Antiquities Act
Creates national monuments from federal lands to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features. -
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
Set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment. -
National Park Service Act
Supervising and maintaining all designated national parks, battlefields, historic places, and monuments. -
Migratory Bird Act
The protection of migratory birds between the United States and Great Britain -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
A means to raise funds for wetland conservation. -
Taylor Grazing Act
Stops injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration. -
Soil Conservation Act
Promotes the conservation and profitable use of agricultural land resources -
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (1948)
The IUCN keeps a list of threatened species, known as the red list. -
Price-Anderson Act
Compensates the nuclear industry against liability claims arising from nuclear incidents while still ensuring compensation coverage for the general public. -
Land and Water Conservation Act
Provides funds and matching grants to federal, state and local governments for the acquisition of land and water, and easements on land and water. -
Clean Air Act
To improve, strengthen, and accelerate programs for the prevention and abatement of air pollution. -
Wilderness Act
An Act to establish a National Wilderness Preservation System for the permanent good of the whole people, and for other purposes. -
Marine Mammal Protection Act (1972)
Prohibits the killing of all marine mammals in the U.S. and prohibits the import or export of any marine mammal body parts. -
Water Pollution Control Act
To restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters -
Endangered Species Act
An Act to provide for the conservation of endangered and threatened species of fish, wildlife, and plants, and for other purposes. -
Safe Drinking Water Act
To assure that the public is provided with safe drinking water, and for other purposes -
Resource Recovery Act
To provide technical and financial assistance for the development of management plans and facilities for the recovery of energy. -
Comprehensive Environment Response, Compensation and Liability Act
An act to provide for liability, compensation, cleanup, and emergency response for hazardous substances released into the environment -
Convention on Biological Diversity (1992)
Established a treaty to protect biodiversity.
Conservation
Sustainable use
Equitably share the benefits that emerge from the commercial use of resources (i.e. pharmaceutical drugs). -
CITES (1973)
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora controls the international trade of threatened plants and animals.
