Tell your Senators to OPPOSE S.659 - 'Bipartisan Sportsmen's Act of 2016'
Action Alert from All-Creatures.org
FROM
WolfWatcher /
Wisconsin Wildlife
Ethic - Vote Our Wildlife
April 2016
ACTION
This bill, under the guise of “Sportsmen”, is loaded with many
anti-environmental provisions and is a mirror image of the SHARE Act which
has already passed in the House of Representatives. Polls indicate the
majority of Americans oppose this.
Tell your Senators to OPPOSE this atrocious act that is pro-hunting, guts
environmental protections, decreases endangered species listings.
See Tell U.S. Senators to
OPPOSE NRA-Backed 'Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act
(SHARE)':
We call this the 'Sportsmen Destruction of the Wilderness Act of 1964.'
It has passed in the House.
THIS HAS TO BE STOPPED IN THE SENATE!!
PLEASE find and contact your
U.S. Senators here.
INFORMATION
This bill, under the guise of “Sportsmen”, is loaded with many
anti-environmental provisions and is a mirror image of the SHARE Act which
has passed in the House of Representatives. Polls indicate the majority of
Americans (and Michigan voters) oppose these bills. If passed, the
Bipartisan Sportsman’s Act would:
- Prevent the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service from restricting the
illegal ivory trade and send the message to the armed criminals who are
decimating Africa’s last herds that the American market is still open
for business.
- Require Dept of Interior to issue permits to allow a hunter to
import polar bear parts (other than internal organs) if the bear was
legally harvested in Canada from an approved population before the May
15, 2008, listing of the polar bear as threatened.
- Exempt components of firearms and ammunition and sport fishing
equipment and its components (such as lead sinkers) from regulations of
chemical substances under the Toxic Substances Control Act posing
significant health risks to humans and wildlife. Lead bullets represent
a problem for anything that ingests them because they fragment into
hundreds of tiny pieces when they strike an animal being shot. As a
result, many scavengers and raptors, including eagles, die annually from
toxic lead poisoning. Studies also suggest that lead fragments can be
found in wild game meat processed for human consumption, even though
best attempts are made in the field to remove sections that are within
the bullet wound channel.
- Guts existing Clean Water Act safeguards that protect our streams,
rivers, and lakes from excessive pesticide pollution. It would allow the
discharge of pesticides into water bodies without meaningful oversight,
since the federal pesticide registration law (the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)) does not require tracking of
such applications.
- Prohibit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from finalizing a rule
that would prohibit certain unethical practices on Alaskan refuge lands,
such as the use of traps or bait in bear hunting, hunting wolves and
coyotes during denning season, and hunting bear cubs or bear sows with
cubs.
- Directs the Secretary of the Interior to reissue two wolf delisting
rules that federal courts held were illegal under the Endangered Species
Act. In addition, the amendment blocks judicial review of the faulty
federal rules, thus preventing citizens from challenging the delisting
of wolves in Wyoming, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Despite the
exaggerated claims made, depredation by wolves remains low, especially
when compared to other losses.
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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