prof.Abdelhamid Fouda
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Since 1918 the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) has been a cornerstone of wildlife conservation in our country, protecting more than 1,000 bird species.
Now the MBTA is under attack, and Mass Audubon is fighting back. But we need your help.
The Trump administration is recommending ending federal protections for harassing, trapping, or killing birds, or taking nests and eggs, unless it can be proven that the intent of the action was only to kill birds, or the species is an endangered species.
This kind of loss, called incidental take, kills millions of birds every year. Removing these protections will unleash unbridled assaults on our native birds.
So, if you want to build a shoppingcenter, and there is colony of herons or a nest of owls on the land, you can cut down the trees, destroying the nests, eggs, and chicks—it's perfectly legal.
And if your industry is a repeat offender and kills thousands of birds each year in uncovered oil waste pits (because you won't follow best practices and cover them), there is no penalty.
Birds fill our lives with curiosity, hope, and wonder. We benefit as they help ecosystems thrive by pollinating plants and eating insects that damage crops.
But they need us more than they have in the last hundred years.
Please make a gift to Mass Audubon today so we can keep fighting to save the birds.
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