[All] Fw: ACTION ALERT: Please add your voice to save songbirds!

[Lori Strothard]

ACTION ALERT:  Please add your voice to save songbirds!
Join FLAP's request to pressure Ontario gov.t's Environmental Registry to regulate all new buildings to have bird-friendly windows that prevent birds flying into windows & becoming injured or dying. The voluntary option for developers todo so is not working. Millions of songbirds die this way across Canada yearly . http://www.flap.org/   FLAP = Fatal Light Attraction Program...... 

Link for where to send your coments by Dec. 4 - http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/displaynoticecontent.do?noticeId=MTI0NTA0&statusId=MTg3NDg5&language=en


Lori S. 

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                              ACTION ALERT:

                              Ontario Ministry of Environment proposing to give up key power to protect songbirds
                                 
                              Dark-eyed Junco - window collision victim
                              (Photo: Mary Barber)
                              Millions of birds are killed in collisions with windows each year across Canada. In Toronto alone, it is estimated to be over one million annually. FLAP Canada has documented 170 species, including species at risk. There are many available solutions designed to help prevent these deaths. The City of Toronto became a leader in the field of preventing migratory bird-window strikes when it published its Bird-Friendly Development Guidelines. In 2010, the Toronto Green Standard began requiring developers to make their new buildings bird-friendly.

                              The Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change is proposing to exempt commercial building owners from a key provision of the province’s Environmental Protection Act (EPA).
                              Instead, the Ministry hopes to put in place voluntary measures.

                              “Every year we collect thousands of dead and injured birds at buildings in the Toronto area,” said Michael Mesure, executive director of the Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Canada. “The Ministry’s plan is disheartening given our work during 22 years showing that corporate owners aren’t interested in voluntary action.”

                              In 2013, an Ontario Court in Podolsky v. Cadillac Fairview made it clear that the province has the power to regulate building owners that are killing birds in window strikes. The court found that reflected light from building windows is a ‘contaminant’ under Section 14 of the EPA.

                              The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario's Annual Report released on November 3, 2015 included strong criticism of the Ministry’s proposed approach of leaving bird protection to building owners:

                              The bigger, underlying problem, however, is that the Ontario court decision created a regulatory gap that the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change has failed to address… Instead, it appears that the ministry’s preferred approach is to ignore its regulatory responsibility and leave it up to property owners and managers to voluntarily follow guidelines and suggested strategies.

                              Please add your voice! Send your comments to the Ministry of Environment by Dec. 4 here: ENVIRONMENTAL REGISTRY
                               
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