I really don't want to spend too much time on this blog talking political issues. I started writing because I wanted to share stories about zoos and zookeeping. But sometimes political issues touch our world and are too great to ignore. One such bomb - one of an endless stream, it seems - dropped the other day. Donald Trump's latest Executive Order of questionable legality calls for sunsetting all environmental regulations. These include the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty act, and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
What does this all mean? It means that, unless people work to protect these safeguards, the laws and regulations that have been responsible for saving so much of America's wildlife heritage - including, I don't know, OUR NATIONAL BIRD, which went from the brink of extinction to now being a reasonably common bird - will cease to be.
The President, to be clear, cannot just opt to end a law. That takes an Act of Congress (we still have one of those, right?). But as we've seen on several fronts in recent weeks, telling the current admin that they legally cannot do something seems to be something they take as a personal challenge.
I can already hear the papers being filed for the lawsuits that will challenge this vile act. All the same, it never is a bad time to make your voices heard to your elected officials. Enough is enough - and we are all way past enough.
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