BREAKING NEWS! Holy cow! Holy cow! Holy cow! Remember the petition I started back in April to ask US Fish & Wildlife Service to please step in and stop Wildlife Recovery Association (Shepard MI) from presenting their education birds utilizing the leg hold method of restraint? thepetitionsite/617/167/218/demand-an-end-to-raptors-being-yaned-around-like-paper-airplanes/ This just in from my colleague that picked this info up through the grapevine. ___________________________________________________ In a letter dated August 25, 2014, USFWS gave notice to Joe and Barb Rogers of its intent to suspend their federal special purpose education permits and states that any rehab birds that you currently have in your possession should be released to the wild, transferred to other permitted sources or exempt facilities or euthanized. It also states that You or your organization will not schedule or conduct any educational programs with live birds or eagles that involve the upper leg hold method of handling. ____________________________________________________ I have just FOIAd Mark Hogeboom FWS Region 3 again, as to an official final outcome, but Im pretty excited about this news! And in the meantime, I have asked my colleague to please send me the link where this was found. (this might be a private forum so I (we) might not have access, but Im eager to see if this is an accurate summary) See, yall...WE DO HAVE A VOICE! And when you see something that you know in your heart is hurtful and stressful to animals, dont be afraid to speak your mind! I took a huge chance by putting my name on that petition and opening myself up to harassment by Joe and Barbara Rogers and who knows...they may STILL come after me. Yall know me by now...I have the reputation for just telling it like it is, regardless of who you are or what you are doing, so when I initially got blown off by the Permits Chief for Region 3 concerning WRA, I never gave up. I RESPECTFULLY kept pushing back and copy and pasting their own regulations back to them and pleading with them to do the right thing by those non-releasable birds. You will notice that I didnt mention anything about their rehabilitation efforts in the petition because I couldnt speak to their rehab methods or husbandry practices, so to see that their rehab birds will also be yanked tells me that other unseemly things must have been going on there, as well...
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:02:42 +0000
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