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WASHINGTON — “The Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act are two of the most important conservation laws in the United States, and Ģ��Av strongly supports their fair and lawful enforcement in the name of protecting America’s birds,” said David O’Neill, Ģ��Av’s chief conservation officer, in response to a domestic energy report released by the Department of the Interior that includes key bird conservation laws in .

“Simply put, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act is the reason we have the birds we have today. We cannot go back to the days before the Ģ��Av Society helped shepherd this law through Congress, when birds were being slaughtered with abandon.

"This report by the Department of the Interior is a wholesale attack on both wildlife and public lands across the country. An overwhelming majority of Americans support commonsense laws that protect America’s wildlife, and Ģ��Av will engage our one million members to defend birds and the places they need.”

To learn more about the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, please click here.

The Ģ��Av protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education and on-the-ground conservation. Ģ��Av's state programs, nature centers, chapters and partners have an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire and unite diverse communities in conservation action. Since 1905, Ģ��Av's vision has been a world in which people and wildlife thrive. Ģ��Av is a nonprofit conservation organization. Learn more how to help at www.audubon.organd follow us on  and  at @audubonsociety.

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Contact: Nicolas Gonzalez, ngonzalez@audubon.org, (212) 979-3068.