Please understand that “accidental take” isn’t being proposed in order to protect you if you accidentally hit an owl with your car or have a secret little collection of found songbird feathers on display in your dining room.
I’ve worked for the the Division of Natural Resources. I’ve worked for the State Parks department, and I’ve worked as a bird rehabber.
Owls get hit by cars all the time. 9/10 of our raptors we treated at any time were car victims. No one is pressing charges.
And no one cares if you have a Blue Jay feather in your dresser with some cool rocks you found in a hike. We Don’t Care.
This proposal isn’t to protect you for these things.
Do you know who wants to be exempt from the Migratory Bird Treaty Act?
Oil & Gas, who see hundreds of millions of birds die horrible deaths in their sludge pits every year in the U.S.
If industries like Oil and Gas become exempt from MBTA laws and aren’t taken to task for accidental take, they Will not take responsibility for this impact in the environment. In fact, they’ll only get worse.
The Migratory Bird Treaty Act is one of the ONLY wildlife laws in the world that ACTUALLY has some teeth, as we say in Wildlife. Meaning, if you violate it, there may actually be consequences you can’t buy your way out of with wealth.
Do not let this administration change that. Tell them that they better not dare.
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