American Bird Conservancy, Forest Conservation Council, and Conservation Council for Hawaii v. Federal Communications Commission, CV-05-00461 DAE LEK. In the summer of 2005, Forest Conservation Council, American Bird Conservancy, and the Conservation Council for Hawai`i today filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Honolulu against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) citing the agency's failure to protect two imperiled birds - the Newell's Shearwater, or 'A'o, and Hawaiian Petrel, or 'Ua'u - from fatal collisions at seven large communication towers on Kaua'i and the Big Island. CSE (formerly Forest Conservation Council) developed the factual basis for the lawsuit and filed the administrative level petitions prior to the suit. The lawsuit is currently in the appeal stage. Read:

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