In 2018, people brought a record number of injured wild birds, more than 6,000, to New Jersey’s Raptor Trust for treatment. The organization said there are so many of these challenges in navigating the world that these birds now have to deal with because of their proximity to humans. The journal Science looked at almost five decades of data, discovering that one in four birds in North America, around 3 billion in total, have been lost since 1970. CGTN’s Nick Harper reports on what experts want to do about it.
After successfully protecting birds for 100 years—saving millions of birds every year and even bringing species like the snowy egret, wood duck, and sandhill crane back from the brink—the landmark Migratory Bird Treaty Act is now being radically reinterpreted to allow companies to get away with preventable bird deaths. We must protect this law to protect our magnificent birds.
