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Dear Defender,
The Trump administration tried to abandon millions of migratory birds to die at the hands of reckless companies – but now, we have a chance to reverse course and save these birds!
A proposal that would have effectively gutted the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) by letting companies off the hook for easily preventable bird killings has been delayed thanks to a review announced by the Biden administration. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is now accepting public comments on the proposal.
This is huge: We have an opportunity to stop this damaging rollback. We only have a few days to act – sign below to urge the FWS to reject this proposal that would harm and kill countless birds!
Act Now: Tell the FWS to restore protections to more than 1,000 species of migratory birds!
Bird lovers have been up in arms about this deadly proposal to hamstring the MBTA. For decades, this critical wildlife law has protected birds by holding these companies accountable for the bird deaths they cause. When the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster killed over a million birds, the $100 million they paid in fines helped restore wetlands and support migratory bird conservation.
This cruel rollback would betray the purpose of this law by only applying the MBTA to cases where companies kill birds on purpose. That means those companies can cause millions of birds to die in uncovered oil waste pits, oil spills, power lines and other industrial dangers – without any legal obligation to prevent those deaths.
The damage would be catastrophic – that’s why it’s so important that we act now to restore those protections!
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