The Migratory Bird Protection Act needs your help to succeed – tell your
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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!

TAKE ACTION: Tell your Representative to support H.R. 5552, the Migratory Bird
Protection Act, to restore urgently needed protections for migratory birds!
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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.

Now, migratory birds are in peril without the protections they need – help end
this crisis!
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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!

SAVE MIGRATORY BIRDS ⟶
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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!

Millions of birds need our help right now – make sure your Representative knows where you stand today by sending them this
quick note!
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Thank you in advance for taking action to protect wildlife.

Sincerely,

Robert Dewey

Vice President, Government Relations and External Affairs, Defenders of Wildlife

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