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Public lands, species, forests and conservation.https://headwaterswire.com/land-wildlife/en-usThu, 05 Nov 2026 02:10:00 GMThttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/11/04/brazil-decree-sets-criteria-critical-strategic-minerals-list/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/11/04/brazil-decree-sets-criteria-critical-strategic-minerals-list/Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed a decree on Nov. 4 setting economic, socio-environmental and climate criteria for defining and updating the list of substances classed as critical minerals and strategic minerals.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:10:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/11/04/government-adopts-strategy-make-england-bovine-tb-free/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/11/04/government-adopts-strategy-make-england-bovine-tb-free/The British government formally adopted a long-term strategy on Nov. 5 aimed at eradicating bovine tuberculosis from England by 2038, with an ambition to deploy cattle vaccination by 2030 and to roll out badger vaccination in priority areas, the government said.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:06:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/27/conservation-group-sues-u-s-wildlife-agency-over-nevada/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/27/conservation-group-sues-u-s-wildlife-agency-over-nevada/The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) on Oct 27, alleging the agency missed legal deadlines to decide whether to protect a Nevada toad and fish the group says gold mining threatens.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:02:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/26/u-s-issues-final-alaska-subsistence-wildlife-rules/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/26/u-s-issues-final-alaska-subsistence-wildlife-rules/The U.S. Forest Service and the Interior Department's Office of Subsistence Management issued a final rule revising hunting and trapping seasons, harvest limits and methods for subsistence taking of wildlife on federal public lands in Alaska during the 2026-27 and 2027-28 regulatory years.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:51:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/25/french-decree-provides-possible-derogation-bcae-standard-outside/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/25/french-decree-provides-possible-derogation-bcae-standard-outside/France's government has issued a decree, signed Oct. 23, 2026, which provides for the possibility of derogating from the BCAE 6 standard outside vulnerable zones for the 2026 campaign.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:07:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/21/eu-commission-recognises-critical-raw-material-projects-strategic/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/21/eu-commission-recognises-critical-raw-material-projects-strategic/The European Commission on Oct 9 recognised the critical raw material projects listed in an annex as Strategic Projects under Regulation (EU) 2024/1252, in a decision aimed at securing the Union's supply of critical raw materials.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 01:23:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/19/india-amends-mineral-auction-rules-qualified-bidders-part-d/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/19/india-amends-mineral-auction-rules-qualified-bidders-part-d/India's Ministry of Mines notified the Mineral (Auction) Third Amendment Rules, 2026, on Oct 16, changing how bidders are qualified in auctions of minerals specified in Part D of the First Schedule to the Act.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:23:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/16/brazils-environment-council-sets-licensing-rules-aquaculture-projects/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/16/brazils-environment-council-sets-licensing-rules-aquaculture-projects/Brazil's National Environment Council (CONAMA) has issued Resolution No. 517, which sets national rules and criteria for the environmental licensing of aquaculture. The resolution, signed Oct 14, 2026 and published in the Diário Oficial da União on Oct 16, revokes CONAMA Resolution No. 413 of 2009.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:52:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/16/u-s-finalizes-year-rule-polar-bear-walrus-take/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/16/u-s-finalizes-year-rule-polar-bear-walrus-take/The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has finalized regulations covering the incidental, unintentional take of small numbers of polar bears and Pacific walruses during oil and gas activities in Alaska's Beaufort Sea and North Slope. The regulations take effect on publication and run through Oct. 19, 2031.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:50:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/16/park-service-final-rule-allows-bear-baiting-again-alaska/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/16/park-service-final-rule-allows-bear-baiting-again-alaska/The National Park Service (NPS) has issued a final rule that restores its 1981 framework for hunting, fishing, trapping and access in Alaska park areas, including allowing all user groups to hunt bears over bait in national preserves under state law.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:48:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/15/mexico-replaces-vaquita-fishing-rules-groups-say-gillnet-ban/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/15/mexico-replaces-vaquita-fishing-rules-groups-say-gillnet-ban/Mexico's agriculture, environment and navy ministries published an agreement on Wednesday that sets new fishing rules for the northern Gulf of California, including a permanent gillnet ban area meant to protect the vaquita marina.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:14:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/14/u-s-judge-temporarily-blocks-further-tree-removal-east/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/14/u-s-judge-temporarily-blocks-further-tree-removal-east/A federal judge on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order that bars the Department of the Interior from further carrying out a plan to remove trees from the East Potomac Golf Course in Washington, D.C.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:30:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/14/louisiana-trustees-select-two-deepwater-horizon-restoration-projects-cos/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/14/louisiana-trustees-select-two-deepwater-horizon-restoration-projects-cos/Louisiana's Deepwater Horizon trustees have selected two coastal projects estimated to cost about $265.7 million to help restore wetlands, coastal and nearshore habitats injured by the oil spill, according to a notice published on Oct 14.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:09:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/13/nmfs-requires-gear-marking-west-coast-groundfish-pot-longline/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/13/nmfs-requires-gear-marking-west-coast-groundfish-pot-longline/The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) published a final rule on Oct 13 requiring gear-specific markings on buoys and lines used with pot and bottom longline gear in the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery, which it said is intended to help attribute marine animal entanglements to a specific fishery.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:11:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/13/usda-finalizes-rule-shortening-comment-objection-periods-forest-projects/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/13/usda-finalizes-rule-shortening-comment-objection-periods-forest-projects/The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a final rule on Oct 13 that rewrites how the public can object to proposed projects on national forests and grasslands. The rule shortens review periods and moves public notification to the web.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:08:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/06/nmfs-raises-gulf-red-grouper-catch-limits-ends-recreational/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/06/nmfs-raises-gulf-red-grouper-catch-limits-ends-recreational/The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has issued a final rule that raises catch limits for Gulf of America red grouper. The rule also ends a Feb 1 through March 31 recreational closure for shallow-water grouper in federal waters seaward of the 20-fathom boundary.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:07:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/02/us-wildlife-agency-agrees-decide-monarch-butterfly-listing-june/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/02/us-wildlife-agency-agrees-decide-monarch-butterfly-listing-june/The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed on Wednesday to submit a final Endangered Species Act listing determination for the monarch butterfly by June 6, 2030, under a settlement with two conservation groups that still requires court approval.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:42:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/01/uk-government-announces-tree-planting-nature-recovery/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/10/01/uk-government-announces-tree-planting-nature-recovery/Britain's Environment Secretary on Wednesday announced £79 million of new government funding for communities across England to restore nature and adapt to the impacts of climate change, including £53 million for urban and rural tree planting.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 04:03:00 GMTLand & Wildlifehttps://headwaterswire.com/2026/09/30/conservation-groups-sue-trump-administration-over-hermosa-mine-expansion/https://headwaterswire.com/2026/09/30/conservation-groups-sue-trump-administration-over-hermosa-mine-expansion/The Center for Biological Diversity and Patagonia Area Resource Alliance sued the Trump administration over its Sept. 2 approval of the expansion of South32's Hermosa mine onto federal public lands in southern Arizona, the groups said.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:04:00 GMTLand & Wildlife