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Vladimir,
The Trump
Administration has the blood of millions of birds on its
hands. In its latest giveaway to corporate industries, the
administration has gutted the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
(MBTA), allowing them to rake in the profits by ignoring bird
conservation. Prior to Trump, the MBTA imposed stiff penalties
on businesses and people who kill migratory birds in the
course of construction and operation. It's credited
with saving whole species, like the snowy egret, from
extinction. But now, under Trump's new rule, there is
nothing stopping the mass slaughter of these vulnerable
birds.
It's all baked into the
"intentionality loophole." As long as a corporation can claim
they merely killed birds by accident — otherwise
known as the "oops" defense — they can get away with it. This
loophole effectively nullifies the entire MBTA law. Developers
and other businesses are jumping at this opportunity,
cancelling more than a dozen bird-preservation projects.
Now that killing birds is no longer punishable, these
corporations won't have to think twice about the avian deaths
they cause. The Trump administration needs to know
we're paying attention and won't stand for this. Sign the petition to demand that the Trump
Administration rescind their policy that could condemn
billions of birds to death.
Thank you for all that you do,
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Miranda
B.
The Care2 Petitions Team |
P.S. Trump has
potentially doomed billions of birds to die. Sign the petition to save the Migratory Bird
Treaty Act before entire species perish. |
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