Our country’s migratory birds, including hawks, eagles, songbirds and more, are being abandoned by the Trump administration.
Millions have already died, poisoned by open oil pits, collisions with electrical lines, with their nests and homes destroyed by development.
Now, with the nation focused on dealing with the COVID-19 crisis, the administration is rushing to finalize new rules that roll back critical bird protections to benefit industry giants like Big Oil.
There’s a chance to fix this disaster, but we need you to act quickly if we’re going to succeed!
This past January, the Trump administration proposed a new regulation that effectively guts the Migratory Treaty Bird Act (MBTA), one of our nation’s most effective conservation laws.
When the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster killed over a million birds, the MBTA ensured BP paid $100 million in fines to help fix the damage. That money helped restore wetlands and support migratory bird conservation.
This anti-wildlife administration has turned its backs on negligent behavior by "reinterpreting" bird protection laws to excuse industry-caused bird deaths as long as those birds weren’t killed on purpose.
That means companies no longer face legal responsibility for the preventable harm they cause to birds.
The public is strongly opposed to these changes, but the administration is putting special interests first. We need to act quickly to save birds: Tell your Representative to support the Migratory Bird Protection Act and end these killings right now!
We’re running out of time to act. It’s more urgent than ever that you ask your representative to support H.R. 5552 to make these companies responsible for avoiding preventable bird deaths!
If we don’t act to save migratory birds, corporations will get to keep ignoring the deaths they cause while they reap greater profits!
