Killer Goes Ahead With Gutting Migratory Bird Act

Update: The Biden administration has delayed the immplementation of the last minute rule change exempting incidental "takes" of migratory birds from the MBTA. The new rule was set to go into effect Monday. The Department of Interior said the pause would allow the agency to determine the next steps to take. A department spokesperson said the rollback by the previous regime "sought to overturn decades of bipartisan and international precedent in order to protect corporate polluters,” Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit to block implementation of the regime's rollback. Conservationists want to see a new rule making to make legal protection of migratory birds stronger.

{28.11.20}The regime announced its final environmental impact findings on the rollback of the 1918 Act, which protects migrating birds. The US Fish and Wildlife Service said the changes would negatively impact many species previously protected. The new rules would limit federal enforcement actions to those instances when harm to birds is intentional. Millions of migrating birds are killed each year by passive hazards such as buildings, power lines oil field waste pits and wind turbines. Industry operations kill an estimated 450 million to 1.1 billion birds annually, out of an estimated total population of 7 billion. Two days after his election defeat by Joe Biden, his minions sent the treaty changes to the Very White House for Killer's approval. The president of the National Audubon Society said he was in a "frenzy to finalize his bird-killing policy" Bird advocates called for the immediate restoration of the law by the Biden administration should the changes become law. Bird population declines that have swept North America since the 1970s. A federal judge in New York rejected the administration’s legal rationale for the changes in August.