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Notes by David Hancock made in relation to BC Wildlife Act<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n When and how to Mitigate Bald Eagle Habitat Loss.<\/strong><\/p>\n These are my thoughts on how conservationists might approach some egregious harm, disrespect and outright violation to our ecologically sustainable world.\u00a0 I specifically review how a new Provincial Government is actually saying\u00a0 \u201cWe must work to reduce the rate of ecological destruction as our long-term future is constantly being eroded and our future productivity is constantly being reduced by short-term actions today<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>My interpretation of the BC Government\u2019s \u00a0recent change of focus.<\/p>\n August 2018: \u00a0Mitigating losses from Bald Eagle Nest Take-Down\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Outline:<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I am posting how FLNR (the BC Government Department in charge) has currently approached the cutting down of the Croydon Drive Bald Eagle Nest.<\/p>\n (a)\u00a0 \u00a0Their \u00a0WITHOUT PREJUDICE \u00a0\u00a0letter \u2026\u00a0 \u00a0https:\/\/hancockwildlife.org\/bc-letter-without-prejudice-croydon\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n (b)\u00a0 My summary of Pertinent Clauses of the BC Wildlife Act<\/u> as a\u00a0guide to how Conservation groups or individuals might approach supporting mitigation.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n My personal editorial comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n LIKE\u00a0 WOW<\/strong> !\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Nothing I have read or dealt with in the past 65 years suggests that the Government \u00a0is now \u00a0taking a longer term approach to our quality of life and how development must protect habitats so we can live successfully for 5, 50 and maybe\u00a0 500 years.\u00a0 It is like we finally realize the world does have guiding principle \u2013 if we don\u2019t put development to a \u2018ecological sustainability test\u2019\u00a0 we are only \u00a0reducing \u00a0every neighbours quality of life and length of life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n MY RANT<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 So think of the BC Wildlife Act as a tool in city or regional zoning.\u00a0 Zoning allows us to organize the land to be fully ecologically sustainable and most enjoyable for living.\u00a0\u00a0Zoning \u00a0also,\u00a0 \u00a0if\u00a0 \u201cgreed driven developers get their way”,\u00a0 allows more productive farmland to be converted to houses, extensive truck and rail warehousing for more unnecessary crap to travel to Chicago \u00a0& eastward or for another unnecessary shopping center. \u00a0This \u00a0is TOTALLY at the control of local citizens.\u00a0 If you want more parks, forests, swamps and shorelines demand it. If you want to reduce the costs of services, bring down the cost of roads, power, police or medical costs then keep our human population smaller.\u00a0 It is only the lies of that tiny group of people who profit from expanding development that keep boosting up the costs of all the support services that the rest of us have to pay. It is also these ever expanding developments that destroy our ecologically sustainable surroundings.\u00a0 Grow food, parkland, wild habitat or even an eagles nest \u2013 not another housing or commercial subdivision.\u00a0 Live longer!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A CHANGE IS OFFERED:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 TODAY \u00a0—\u00a0 just right now — \u00a0our \u00a0Provincial Government is \u00a0laying out how we as citizens can help protect wildlife and habitat and realize ecological sustainability \u2013 perhaps even catch up on past sins.\u00a0\u00a0 This FLNR approach can obviously be considered both a \u201cStick and a Carrot\u201d : a very severe \u201cStick\u201c that could greatly affect the violator for the rest of his life, and not just with immediate and huge monetary penalty , \u00a0SO the \u201cCarrot\u201d offers the developers\u00a0 a \u201cVoluntarily incentive<\/strong>\u201d to offer to do better for the Wildlife and Habitat \u201cthan face the Stick\u201d<\/strong>! \u00a0\u00a0It is our demanded cooperation of our City Governments that can enforce that Stick.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Two Guiding Documents:\u00a0 \u00a0Enough is enough!<\/strong><\/p>\n (a)\u00a0\u00a0 FLNR\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWITHOUT PREJUDICE\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0letter by Ian Blackburn, Resource Manager, South Coast Region FLNR regarding the destruction of:\u00a0 Active Bald Eagle Nest at Croydon Drive at 20th Avenue, Surrey, BC:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This letter must be read!\u00a0 This letter can be read here :\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/hancockwildlife.org\/bc-letter-without-prejudice-croydon\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n (b)\u00a0 Hancock summary of Pertinent Clauses of BC Wildlife Act as a guidance to how Conservation groups or individuals might approach supporting \u00a0mitigation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>To protect British Columbia\u2019s wildlife and its habitat\u00a0 — the Act to insure\u00a0 we keep:\u00a0 Super Natural British Columbia \u2013 \u2018Super\u2019.\u00a0 Dh<\/em><\/p>\n The Act outlines some very specific protections to Bald Eagles, Peregrines, herons, burrowing owls gyr \u2013 on any part of season,\u00a0 but most importantly it is focused on protecting ecologically sustainable habitat \u2013 that means forever!<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Full ACT on WEB:\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.bclaws.ca\/Recon\/document\/ID\/freeside\/00_96488_01<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Some pertinent Clauses of BC Wildlife Act:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Birds, nests and eggs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n 34<\/em> \u00a0A person commits an offence if the person, except as provided by regulation, possesses, takes, injures, molests or destroys<\/em><\/p>\n (a)\u00a0 a bird or its egg,<\/em><\/p>\n (b) \u00a0the nest of an eagle, peregrine falcon,\u00a0<\/em>gyrfalcon, osprey, heron or burrowing owl,\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>NOTE:\u00a0 {{and\u00a0 <\/em>(b) applies to any part of season or for\u00a0any reason !- dh as explained to me by Jack Evans}}<\/p>\n (c) the nest of a bird not referred to in\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0paragraph (b) when the nest is occupied\u00a0<\/em>by a bird or its egg.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Here are some current ways for the public to think and evaluate the full impact that disturbance of Bald Eagles can have and how this disturbance can be used to save the eagles and the habitat – this is but one government perspective from one type of disturbance.<\/p>\n Concerned Citizen OBJECTIVES:<\/strong><\/p>\n First, the key is often stopping the violation by phoning the two levels of government.\u00a0 Then go to the\u00a0 \u201cpotential offender if they are known,\u00a0 and go to the press.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (i)\u00a0 \u00a0the Local City \u2013 Environmental Department or Zoning<\/p>\n (ii)\u00a0 the BC Provincial Government \u2013 Conservation Officer<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Then:\u00a0 (iii)\u00a0 to the violator if known\u00a0 – seek politely the termination of the bad act.<\/p>\n (iv) \u00a0\u00a0to local Conservation groups – Natural History Clubs<\/p>\n \u2013 they often have media contacts.<\/p>\n (v)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to the PRESS –\u00a0 TV, Radio and local and regional papers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Be armed with:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The amount of a Fine, even the adding in accumulative levels of fines,\u00a0 while basically laid out by the BC Wildlife Act, can be enormous.\u00a0 The actual interpretation is going to be totally dependent upon the will of the local people \u2013 in a way \u2018telling the Prosecutor what is worthy and needed.\u2019 \u00a0.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 The public\u2019s level of protest and levels of continuing to allow irresponsible violations of our wildlife and habitats will drive the consequences \u2013 largely determine the mitigation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If the violation can be proven the \u2018in charge\u2019 Conservation Officer \u00a0for the Ministry will take the data collected, and I hate to say \u2013 test the wind of the community\u00a0 — and go forward harshly or less so \u00a0\u2026\u00a0 if the public is not pressing for Mitigation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0An incredible test:\u00a0 Ask your local government person standing for election:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Are you going to put a \u201ctest of Ecological Sustainability\u201d\u00a0 to every Council decision?\u00a0If not, \u00a0you won\u2019t vote for them ! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0((Note:\u00a0 lets start a Thread to discuss this ! ))<\/p>\n Today, with the past 50 years of so much degradation of the surrounding habitat, its conversion to houses, subdivisions, businesses storage yards, farms \u00a0and roads it is essential we halt the rate of destruction or we will not have\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cSuper Natural British Columbia\u201d .\u00a0 Or??<\/p>\n The potential fines as you can see in reading the Act can be enormous:\u00a0 not just a few $1000 or a few days in jail \u2013 the normal mitigation\u00a0 —\u00a0 BUT literally millions of dollars and the setting aside of a huge block of \u201cmitigated habitat\u201d<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 The Creative sentencing can involve\u00a0 \u201cVariations and Additional Fines that are designed to punish and retrieve habitat values\u201d <\/em>\u00a0that have been diminished by the violation.<\/p>\n These fines are designed to return to the public any value gained by the violator from his beastly act. \u00a0Destroying valuable habitat, a heron colony, an eagle nest or key nesting or migratory habitat to convert it to a Subdivision, industrial purpose or docks can give the developer millions of dollars in increased value\u00a0 — ALL retrievable via the ACT.<\/p>\n The whole BC Wildlife Act is available:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.bclaws.ca\/Recon\/document\/ID\/freeside\/00_96488_01<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n My summarized and editorialized version of key sections of\u00a0 ACT are available at:\u00a0 www.hancockwidlife.org\/<\/a> BC Wildlife Act-Mitigation<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Categories of Violation Fines:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Another application is if the violator destroyed some specific wildlife item and in doing so he benefitted by changing the value of the land since it no longer contained that valuable \u00a0Provincial protected item, then the State should take back through these Creative options his new-found value. ie: a change in property value might result from \u2018taking down\u2019\u00a0 a protected Bald Eagle Nest or removal of a Great Blue Heronry. \u00a0\u00a0The \u2018Creative interpretation\u2019<\/em>\u00a0 of these \u2018Additional Fines\u2019<\/em>\u00a0 might well be satisfied by formation of a bigger piece of Park than might have otherwise been offered. \u201cWhy not a Bald Eagle Preserve\u201d\u00a0 to benefit all wildlife for generations to come.\u00a0 This violation could cost the violator millions of dollars!<\/p>\n AGAIN,\u00a0 these fines are optional and totally dependent upon the CO prosecuting the violation and seeking this resolution in the presentation to the Judge.\u00a0 This is going to reflect how the local public wishes to allow the continued degradation of our habitat\u00a0 — or do we stop it!!<\/p>\n NOTE:\u00a0 In addition to giving the url to the BC Wildlife Act, the above \u2018singular approach to seeking mitigation, particularly for the removal of a bald eagle nest, our Hancock Wildlife Foundation is setting up a Forum Thread for the public to report violations or discuss different approaches in different areas.\u00a0 This is your Forum so use it!<\/p>\n Croydon Bald Eagle Nest Mitigation:<\/strong><\/p>\n Hancockwilddlife.org<\/a>:\u00a0 our Web Site has expanding Forums to specifically discuss:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Help keep Super Natural British Columbia SUPER.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Thanks<\/strong><\/p>\n David Hancock ,\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Director,\u00a0 Hancock Wildlife Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bald Eagle Nest Loss + Mitigation Procedures –\u00a0\u201cSpeak for Eagles\u201d \u00a0\u00a0 Notes by David Hancock made in relation to BC Wildlife Act:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 When and how to Mitigate Bald Eagle Habitat Loss. These are my thoughts on how conservationists might approach some egregious harm, disrespect and outright violation to our ecologically sustainable world.\u00a0 I specifically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Bald Eagle Nest Loss + Mitigation Procedures -\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cSpeak for Eagles\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\nNotes by David Hancock made in relation to BC Wildlife Act<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\nWhen and how to Mitigate Bald Eagle Habitat Loss.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThese are my thoughts on how conservationists might approach some egregious harm, disrespect and outright violation to our ecologically sustainable world.\u00a0 I specifically review how a new Provincial Government is actually saying\u00a0 \u201cWe must work to reduce the rate of ecological destruction as our long-term future is constantly being eroded and our future productivity is constantly being reduced by short-term actions today<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>My interpretation of the BC Government\u2019s \u00a0recent change of focus.\r\n\r\nAugust 2018: \u00a0Mitigating losses from Bald Eagle Nest Take-Down\u00a0 <\/strong>\r\n\r\nOutline:<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I am posting how FLNR (the BC Government Department in charge) has currently approached the cutting down of the Croydon Drive Bald Eagle Nest.\u00a0 <\/strong>\r\n\r\n(a)\u00a0 \u00a0Their \u00a0WITHOUT PREJUDICE \u00a0\u00a0letter \u2026\u00a0 \u00a0https:\/\/hancockwildlife.org\/bc-letter-without-prejudice-croydon\/<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n(b)\u00a0 My summary of Pertinent Clauses of the <\/strong>BC Wildlife Act<\/u><\/strong> as a\u00a0<\/strong>guide to how Conservation groups or individuals might approach supporting mitigation<\/strong>.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\nMy personal editorial comments:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nLIKE\u00a0 WOW<\/strong> !\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Nothing I have read or dealt with in the past 65 years suggests that the Government \u00a0is now \u00a0taking a longer term approach to our quality of life and how development must protect habitats so we can live successfully for 5, 50 and maybe\u00a0 500 years.\u00a0 It is like we finally realize the world does have guiding principle \u2013 if we don\u2019t put development to a \u2018ecological sustainability test\u2019\u00a0 we are only \u00a0reducing \u00a0every neighbours quality of life and length of life.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nMY RANT<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 So think of the BC Wildlife Act as a tool in city or regional zoning.\u00a0 Zoning allows us to organize the land to be fully ecologically sustainable and most enjoyable for living.\u00a0\u00a0Zoning \u00a0also,\u00a0 \u00a0if\u00a0 \u201cgreed driven developers get their way\",\u00a0 allows more productive farmland to be converted to houses, extensive truck and rail warehousing for more unnecessary crap to travel to Chicago \u00a0& eastward or for another unnecessary shopping center. \u00a0This \u00a0is TOTALLY at the control of local citizens.\u00a0 If you want more parks, forests, swamps and shorelines demand it. If you want to reduce the costs of services, bring down the cost of roads, power, police or medical costs then keep our human population smaller.\u00a0 It is only the lies of that tiny group of people who profit from expanding development that keep boosting up the costs of all the support services that the rest of us have to pay. It is also these ever expanding developments that destroy our ecologically sustainable surroundings.\u00a0 Grow food, parkland, wild habitat or even an eagles nest \u2013 not another housing or commercial subdivision.\u00a0 Live longer!\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nA CHANGE IS OFFERED:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 TODAY \u00a0--\u00a0 just right now -- \u00a0our \u00a0Provincial Government is \u00a0laying out how we as citizens can help protect wildlife and habitat and realize ecological sustainability \u2013 perhaps even catch up on past sins.\u00a0\u00a0 This FLNR approach can obviously be considered both a \u201cStick and a Carrot\u201d : a very severe \u201cStick\u201c that could greatly affect the violator for the rest of his life, and not just with immediate and huge monetary penalty , \u00a0SO the \u201cCarrot\u201d offers the developers\u00a0 a \u201cVoluntarily incentive<\/strong>\u201d to offer to do better for the Wildlife and Habitat \u201cthan face the Stick\u201d<\/strong>! \u00a0\u00a0It is our demanded cooperation of our City Governments that can enforce that Stick.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nTwo Guiding Documents:\u00a0 \u00a0Enough is enough!<\/strong>\r\n\r\n(a)\u00a0\u00a0 FLNR\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWITHOUT PREJUDICE<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0letter by Ian Blackburn, Resource Manager, South Coast Region FLNR regarding the destruction of:\u00a0 <\/strong>Active Bald Eagle Nest at Croydon Drive X 20<\/strong>th <\/strong>Avenue., Surrey, BC:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This letter must be read!\u00a0 This letter can be read here :\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/hancockwildlife.org\/bc-letter-without-prejudice-croydon\/<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n(b)\u00a0 <\/strong>Hancock summary of Pertinent Clauses of BC Wildlife Act<\/strong> as a guidance to how Conservation groups or individuals might approach supporting \u00a0mitigation.\r\n1.\u00a0<\/strong>Purpose of the Wildlife Act:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
2.\u00a0 KEY \u00a0<\/em>\u201cBC Wildlife Act\u201d\u00a0 Clause addressing:\u00a0\u00a0 Violation\u00a0 \u00ad\u00ad<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n
3. How to Apply these Laws to Protecting the Wildlife<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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5. Fines for Violation of BC Wildlife Act \u2013 can be ONEROUS!\u00a0\u00a0—–\u00a0 REALLY ONEROUS!<\/h4>\n
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1.\u00a0<\/strong>Purpose of the Wildlife Act:<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n\u00a0<\/strong>To protect British Columbia\u2019s wildlife and its habitat\u00a0 -- the Act to insure\u00a0 we keep:\u00a0 Super Natural British Columbia \u2013 \u2018Super\u2019.\u00a0 Dh<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe Act outlines some very specific protections to Bald Eagles, Peregrines, herons, burrowing owls gyr \u2013 on any part of season,\u00a0 but most importantly it is focused on protecting ecologically sustainable habitat \u2013 that means forever!<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\n
2.\u00a0 KEY \u00a0<\/em>\u201cBC Wildlife Act\u201d\u00a0 Clause addressing:\u00a0\u00a0 Violation\u00a0 \u00ad\u00ad<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Full ACT on WEB:\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.bclaws.ca\/Recon\/document\/ID\/freeside\/00_96488_01<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nSome pertinent Clauses of BC Wildlife Act:<\/em><\/strong>\r\n
\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Birds, nests and eggs<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n34<\/em> \u00a0A person commits an offence if the person, except as provided by regulation, possesses, takes, injures, molests or destroys<\/em>\r\n\r\n(a)\u00a0 a bird or its egg,<\/em>\r\n\r\n(b) \u00a0the nest of an eagle, peregrine falcon,\u00a0<\/em>gyrfalcon, osprey, heron or burrowing owl,\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>NOTE:\u00a0 {{and\u00a0 <\/em>(b) applies to any part of season or for\u00a0any reason !- dh as explained to me by Jack Evans}}\r\n\r\n(c) the nest of a bird not referred to in\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0paragraph (b) when the nest is occupied\u00a0<\/em>by a bird or its egg.<\/em><\/blockquote>\r\n
3. How to Apply these Laws to Protecting the Wildlife<\/strong><\/h4>\r\nHere are some current ways for the public to think and evaluate the full impact that disturbance of Bald Eagles can have and how this disturbance can be used to save the eagles and the habitat - this is but one government perspective from one type of disturbance.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nConcerned Citizen OBJECTIVES: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n
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