Tell the Environmental Protection Agency to save vital bird habitat.TAKE ACTION
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Migratory birds, like the colorful cerulean warbler, depend on sustenance to
fuel their long, seasonal journeys. But a toxic herbicide called dicamba is
damaging oaks and other native trees that provide needed seeds and habitat for
energy-rich bugs. Shockingly, the Environmental Protection Agency approved use
of the herbicide before assessing the extent of its impact on native plants and
wildlife.

Tell the Environmental Protection Agency not to permit the use of dicamba until
they can prove that the herbicide can be used without causing serious harm to
wildlife.
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PROTECT BIRDS: SAVE NATIVE TREES
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Dicamba was designed solely for use on soybean and cotton seeds that were
genetically modified to tolerate its effects. As dicamba drifts and damages
nearby forests of oak, box elder and other native trees and other natural and
backyard habitat more than a mile away, birds and pollinators are paying the
price for the Environmental Protection Agency’s inadequate assessment of the
herbicide’s environmental harm.

Repeated exposure to damaging herbicides results in trees and other flowering
plants slowly dying, which then eliminates important sources of nectar, shelter
and nesting places for insects and migrating birds when they need them the most.
Although the Environmental Protection Agency made a mistake by allowing use of
dicamba without a rigorous environmental impact assessment, they can right this wrong by not re-approving the use of the toxic herbicide
for next growing season and beyond.
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Research shows that cerulean warblers are particularly drawn to oak trees in
Wisconsin’s ecologically-rich Driftless Area. But if the Environmental
Protection Agency continues to permit the use of dicamba, that vibrant landscape
and those like it across the Midwest would continue to be exposed to the
herbicide as it drifts from nearby agricultural lands. With habitat destruction
already a key concern for cerulean warblers and other migratory birds, the
agency is further jeopardizing these beloved songbirds.

The permitting of agricultural chemicals should be a science-based decision.
Without proper research to determine environmental harm, herbicides like dicamba
can wreak havoc on our cherished wildlife.

Now, the Environmental Protection Agency needs to hear from wildlife advocates
like you: Tell the agency not to permit the use of dicamba until proper scientific
research on its effects can be conducted.
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Thank you for all you do to protect vulnerable wildlife and their crucial native
habitats.

Sincerely,

Julie Sibbing
Advisor, Land Stewardship
National Wildlife Federation Action Fund

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