Trump administration moves ahead on gutting bird protections
The Trump administration is moving forward on gutting a longstanding federal protection for roughly 1,000 species of birds in the United States

The Trump administration moved forward Friday on gutting a longstanding federal protection for the nation’s birds, over objections from former federal officials and many scientists that billions more birds will likely perish as a result.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published its take on the proposed rollback in the Federal Register. It’s a final step that means the change — greatly limiting federal authority to prosecute industries for practices that kill migratory birds — could be made official within 30 days.

The wildlife service acknowledged in its findings that the rollback would have a “negative” effect on the many bird species covered by the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which range from hawks and eagles to seabirds, storks, songbirds and sparrows.

The move scales back federal prosecution authority for the deadly threats migratory birds face from industry — from electrocution on power lines, to wind turbines that knock them from the air and oil field waste pits where landing birds perish in toxic water.

Industry operations kill an estimated 450 million to 1.1 billion birds annually, out of roughly 7 billion birds in North America, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and recent studies.

The Trump administration maintains that the Act should apply only to birds killed or harmed intentionally, and is putting that “clarifying” change into regulation. The change would “improve consistency and efficiency in enforcement,” the Fish and Wildlife Service said.

The administration has continued to push the migratory bird regulation even after a federal judge in New York in August rejected the administration’s legal rationale.

Two days after news organizations announced President Donald Trump’s defeat by Democrat Joe Biden, federal officials advanced the bird treaty changes to the White House, one of the final steps before adoption.

Trump was “in a frenzy to finalize his bird-killer policy,” David Yarnold, president of the National Audubon Society, said in a statement Friday. ”Reinstating this 100-year-old bedrock law must be a top conservation priority for the Biden-Harris Administration” and Congress.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/trump-administration-moves-ahead-gutting-bird-protections-74430870

What about protection for lame ducks?

Here every council is a bird-killer.

They put up “do not feed the ducks” signs everywhere so the wild birds will starve to death.

mollwollfumble said:

Here every council is a bird-killer.

They put up “do not feed the ducks” signs everywhere so the wild birds will starve to death.

bull.

sarahs mum said:

mollwollfumble said:

Here every council is a bird-killer.

They put up “do not feed the ducks” signs everywhere so the wild birds will starve to death.

bull.

¿ do not feed the bull ?

mollwollfumble said:

Here every council is a bird-killer.

They put up “do not feed the ducks” signs everywhere so the wild birds will starve to death.

they do that because people feed ducks bread, which is bad because its not good for the ducks and the yeast of uneaten bread creates a problem in the waterway.

Arts said:

mollwollfumble said:

Here every council is a bird-killer.

They put up “do not feed the ducks” signs everywhere so the wild birds will starve to death.

they do that because people feed ducks bread, which is bad because its not good for the ducks and the yeast of uneaten bread creates a problem in the waterway.

So you should only cast unleavened bread upon the waters.

sibeen said:

Arts said:

mollwollfumble said:

Here every council is a bird-killer.

They put up “do not feed the ducks” signs everywhere so the wild birds will starve to death.

they do that because people feed ducks bread, which is bad because its not good for the ducks and the yeast of uneaten bread creates a problem in the waterway.

So you should only cast unleavened bread upon the waters.

eats roots shoots loaves and fishes

I do often wonder of mollwoll is joking or not.

There is no need for this. It is pure Trump spitefulness.

Michael V said:

There is no need for this. It is pure Trump spitefulness.

I hope they do manage to lock the cunt up.

roughbarked said:

I do often wonder of mollwoll is joking or not.

Thank you. I appreciate that.

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

I do often wonder of mollwoll is joking or not.

Thank you. I appreciate that.

You’re welcome.