Bird migration

Next Pathway advances momentum with enhanced cloud migration capabilities and expansion of global strategic partnerships

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Thursday, July 15, 2021

To meet this growing need, Next Pathway has made significant enhancements to its product line and expanded its strategic global partnerships.

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  • To meet this growing need, Next Pathway has made significant enhancements to its product line and expanded its strategic global partnerships.
  • Addressing pent-up demand to migrate to the cloud, Next Pathway has formed strategic partnerships with additional Global System Integrators (GSIs) to deliver a complete migration offering and has licensed SHIFT, its automated migration tool, to leading technology companies such as Informatica.
  • Underpinning all these operational developments is the continuous technical innovation to its cloud migration products: Crawler360,the SHIFT Migration Suite and SHIFT Tester.
  • By automating all the key phases in cloud migration from planning to code translation to testing Next Pathway eliminates many of the pain points associated with cloud migration.

Quebecer ordered to pay $60,000 for violating the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

On June21, 2021, in the Saint-Jrme Courthouse, Frdric Thibeault was ordered to pay a total fine of $60,000, after pleading guilty to an offence under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994.

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  • On June21, 2021, in the Saint-Jrme Courthouse, Frdric Thibeault was ordered to pay a total fine of $60,000, after pleading guilty to an offence under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994.
  • Destroying a nest or egg of a migratory bird constitutes an offence, as specified by paragraph6(a) of the Migratory Birds Regulations, punishable under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994.
  • Frdric Thibeault was ordered to pay $15,000 per nest destroyed, for a total fine of $60,000.
  • Under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994, Environment and Climate Change Canada is responsible for protecting migratory birds, their nests and their eggs and regulating potentially harmful human activities.

Three Newfoundland and Labrador hunters fined $15,000 for offences under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994

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Friday, June 25, 2021

On June 24, 2021, Paul Lushman, Bud Durnford, and Brian Durnford, from Francois, Newfoundland and Labrador, were each sentenced to pay $5,000 after having pleaded guilty on May 10, 2021, to one charge each under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994, in the Stephenville Provincial Court, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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  • On June 24, 2021, Paul Lushman, Bud Durnford, and Brian Durnford, from Francois, Newfoundland and Labrador, were each sentenced to pay $5,000 after having pleaded guilty on May 10, 2021, to one charge each under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994, in the Stephenville Provincial Court, Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • The three hunters were charged with possessing migratory birds without the necessary authorization.
  • The investigation by enforcement officers led to charges being laid against all three individuals for offences under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994.
  • Under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994, Environment and Climate Change Canada is authorized to protect migratory birds and their nests, conserve populations, and regulate potentially harmful human activities that may impact them.

Global Data Center Migration Market Report 2021-2026: Mergers and Acquisitions, Regulatory Requirements, and End of Lease Requirements

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Thursday, June 24, 2021

The data center migration is done due to a variety of reasons including mergers and acquisitions, regulatory requirements, and end of lease requirements.

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  • The data center migration is done due to a variety of reasons including mergers and acquisitions, regulatory requirements, and end of lease requirements.
  • The data center migration provides significant cost savings to the organization, which is one of the major factors anticipated to propel the growth of the data center migration market during the forecast period.
  • Datacenter migration provides better security and improved efficiency, which is leading to many companies undergoing data center migration and is anticipated to boost the data center migration market growth during the forecast period.
  • The recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease had a positive impact on the data center migration market.

RChilli Now Offers Data Migration Service

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Monday, June 21, 2021

It is now introducing a data migration service exclusively for ATS to make the data migration process easy without any technical glitch.

Key Points: 
  • It is now introducing a data migration service exclusively for ATS to make the data migration process easy without any technical glitch.
  • RChilli is quick enough to recognize this need and offers a seamless data migration process with its best-in-class technology.
  • Read this article to know about the challenges of migrating data and how RChilli data migration solves them.
  • For more information on RChilli data migration service, visit https://www.rchilli.com/solutions/data-migration .

NCLA Slams Interior’s Proposed New Rule Creating Criminal Liability for Incidental Bird Deaths

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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Washington, D.C., June 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Any activity resulting in the incidental death of migratory birds would be considered a crime under a proposed rule by the U.S.

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  • Washington, D.C., June 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Any activity resulting in the incidental death of migratory birds would be considered a crime under a proposed rule by the U.S.
  • FWSs Regulations Governing Take of Migratory Birds repeals a Trump Administration final rule which correctly defines the scope of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), as Congress did, to exclude criminal liability for the incidental death of migratory birds.
  • The MBTA, first passed in 1918, was created to ensure the sustainability of populations of migratory bird species.
  • FWS should refrain from repealing the final rule and instead continue its current practice of not prosecuting incidental takes.

NFWF Announces $4 Million in Conservation Grants to Support Big Game Migration Corridors Across the West

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Tuesday, June 1, 2021

The grants will leverage $21.6 million in matching contributions to generate a total conservation impact of $25.6 million.

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  • The grants will leverage $21.6 million in matching contributions to generate a total conservation impact of $25.6 million.
  • The grants were awarded through the Improving Habitat Quality in Western Big Game and Migration Corridors Program (Western Big Game Migration Program), a public-private partnership between NFWF and the U.S. Department of Interior, with funding provided by the the U.S.
  • The projects supported by the 16 grants announced today will enhance and improve habitats on state-identified priority winter ranges, stopover areas and migration corridors that are used by big game species.
  • A complete list of the 2021 grants made through the Improving Habitat Quality in Western Big Game Winter Range and Migration Corridors Program is available here.

Thought Leaders Gather for Forum on Central American Security & Economic Prosperity

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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Central America's Northern Triangle countries are experiencing a historic diaspora to the southern border of the United States and to neighboring countries.

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  • Central America's Northern Triangle countries are experiencing a historic diaspora to the southern border of the United States and to neighboring countries.
  • Back-to-back Category 4 hurricanes, a historic pandemic, heightened crime, violence, official corruption and weakening democratic institutions, have produced desperation feeding unprecedented migration.
  • The United States is a primary destination for Central American migrants.
  • A consensus has developed that only a regional multi-pronged strategy to strengthen both democracy and the economies of Central American countries provides plausible hope for relief.

Parks Canada celebrates World Migratory Bird Day by shooting hundreds of cormorants on Middle Island, Lake Erie

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Friday, May 7, 2021

b'TORONTO, May 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Animal Alliance of Canada stresses that World Migratory Bird Day is important because it raises awareness about need to protect migratory birds and their habitats.

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  • b'TORONTO, May 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Animal Alliance of Canada stresses that World Migratory Bird Day is important because it raises awareness about need to protect migratory birds and their habitats.
  • It highlights the threats faced by migratory birds, points to their ecological importance, and stresses the need for international cooperation to conserve them.\nThat\xe2\x80\x99s why it is so troubling that the Ontario government and Parks Canada fail to celebrate the spectacular return of the Double-crested Cormorant, whose population was driven to precarious numbers twice in the last two centuries and rebounded in the last 70 years.\nUnder Premier Ford, Ontario has declared the cormorant a \xe2\x80\x9cgame bird\xe2\x80\x9d, which it is not, so that hunters can shoot them from mid-September to the end of December and let them go to waste.
  • It is an outright attack on a migratory bird population that deserves our admiration and protection.\nOn days just before and after World Migratory Bird Day (May 8, 2021), Parks Canada is conducting a cormorant cull on Middle Island, part of Point Pelee National Park.\xc2\xa0 Instead of celebrating and nurturing a spectacular waterbird colony, comprised in part of cormorants, Great Blue Herons, Black-crowned Night-Herons, and Great Egrets, the park has subjected this little island and its migratory bird population to yearly cormorant culls, killing over 20,000 of them to date.\nThis year is no exception even though Ontario is in an emergency lockdown.\xc2\xa0 Parks Canada staff insisted that the cull must take place and the first day of shooting was May 6, 2021.\nSo once again, Animal Alliance of Canada, Zoocheck and Cormorant Defenders International urge the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson to signify the importance of World Migratory Bird Day and order his Parks Canada staff to cancel the cull.\n'

Universities Leverage Latest in Automation to Migrate and Uplift Courses

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Friday, May 7, 2021

Crane (course migration application) transforms and migrates courses in mere days, compared to current market technology that can take weeks and months.\nEducation providers moving to a new LMS have always had two tasks to contend with:\n2) Uplift (transform) courses.

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  • Crane (course migration application) transforms and migrates courses in mere days, compared to current market technology that can take weeks and months.\nEducation providers moving to a new LMS have always had two tasks to contend with:\n2) Uplift (transform) courses.
  • By allowing users to specify a target template, Crane can transform the content to suit the desired layout and structure.
  • Cutting course uplift down to days and still within the industry\'s most competitive price.\n"We noticed our education customers were struggling to migrate and then uplift their courses within an effective delivery timeframe.
  • Crystal Delta\'s automation delivered migrated courses with consistent quality at high speed, and they completed the migration of courses ahead of the project deadline."