[CPEO-MEF] Marianas range challenge

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental critics have reportedly opened a new front in their
challenges to Navy munitions training. According to Defense
Environmental Alert (January 16, 2001), the Center for Biological
Diversity is "requesting a court injuction to halt live-fire training
... because of what they say are violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty
ACt" at Farallon de Medinilla (FDM), an 1.7-mile long island leased by
the Navy from the western Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas.

A biologist at the Center said, "The continuing bombing and destruction
of rare and migratory birds on FDM is an ecological travesty and is an
embarrassment to our nation."

LS
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/968-1126
lsiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org


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