Archive for January 18th, 2008

Jan 18 2008

US Fish and Wildlife Service plans to allow harvest of Canadian produced peregrine falcons

Please submit your concerns and comments to FalconryDEA@fws.gov on the DEA. 

We are in urgent need of your support regarding this situation.  As the title suggests, many of the falcons that are going to be harvested / trapped in the proposed United States Fish and Wildlife’s – (USFW) DEA management plan will be for the taking for private falconry purposes only. A peregrine harvest (of any kind) at this stage here in North America is simply criminal, while the species is still in its recovery in most ALL of the US states and Canadian provinces,,,, and still listed as such for very good reasons. It is a listed SAR –– (species at risk) including its habitat, and still protected by law in both countries federally, and in individual states and provinces here in North America.  The species is either still absent from many parts of it historical breeding places, and or still in recovery as of this date. Continue Reading »

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