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Cross posting requested.
I have just received a call from Kristy Garcia of The Coalition of Pennsylvania Aviculturists (TOCPA), and Kelly Williams of
the American Federation of Aviculture (AFA), who, together with Rick Rowland of TOCPA, attended all sessions of the
Pennsylvania Game Commission to advocate for the rights of bird owners to own and keep their Nanday Conures and other
exotic birds in Pennsylvania.
Kristy and Kelly asked me to relay the good news that Nanday Conures have been removed from the proposal to amend 58
PA Code Section 137.1.
This means that Nanday Conures WILL NOT BE BANNED IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Kristy, Rick, and Kelly will have more information later today or tomorrow when they issue their full report to us. Right now
they are on their way home, and will be taking a well-deserved rest from their three days of advocating for you and your
birds.
Kelly wanted us to know that the Commissioners thanked them and all who appeared at the hearing, for their politeness,
organization, professionalism, and thoroughness in addressing the Commission. They said that it is obvious that we all
love our birds and they were impressed that so many people took the time to come before the Commission and advocate for
them.
I want to personally say THANK YOU to Kristy, Kelly, and Rick, and everyone who called, faxed, wrote, emailed, and attended
the hearing. Each person who got involved played an important part in this victory for bird owners and our birds. Without
your help the Nanday Conure would have been banned in Pennsylvania. With your help we were able to show the
Commission that a ban of this bird was not necessary either to protect human health or wildlife habitat.
I hope that each of you who responded this time will view this victory as a learning experience, and that you will continue to
respond when we ask for help fighting other restrictive animal proposals that come up in other areas.
Thank you again.
Genny Wall
AFA Legislative VP
gennygem2@aol.com
www.afabirds.org
The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They recognized the
significance of man's spiritual nature, of his feelings and of his intellect. They knew that only a part of the pain, pleasure and
satisfactions of life are to be found in material things. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their
emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most
comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. To protect that right, every unjustifiable intrusion by the
government upon the privacy of the individual, whatever the means employed, must be deemed a violation of the Fourth
Amendment. And the use, as evidence in a criminal proceeding, of facts ascertained by such intrusion must be deemed a
violation of the Fifth.
--Justice Louis Brandeis OLMSTEAD v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928)
I have just received a call from Kristy Garcia of The Coalition of Pennsylvania Aviculturists (TOCPA), and Kelly Williams of
the American Federation of Aviculture (AFA), who, together with Rick Rowland of TOCPA, attended all sessions of the
Pennsylvania Game Commission to advocate for the rights of bird owners to own and keep their Nanday Conures and other
exotic birds in Pennsylvania.
Kristy and Kelly asked me to relay the good news that Nanday Conures have been removed from the proposal to amend 58
PA Code Section 137.1.
This means that Nanday Conures WILL NOT BE BANNED IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Kristy, Rick, and Kelly will have more information later today or tomorrow when they issue their full report to us. Right now
they are on their way home, and will be taking a well-deserved rest from their three days of advocating for you and your
birds.
Kelly wanted us to know that the Commissioners thanked them and all who appeared at the hearing, for their politeness,
organization, professionalism, and thoroughness in addressing the Commission. They said that it is obvious that we all
love our birds and they were impressed that so many people took the time to come before the Commission and advocate for
them.
I want to personally say THANK YOU to Kristy, Kelly, and Rick, and everyone who called, faxed, wrote, emailed, and attended
the hearing. Each person who got involved played an important part in this victory for bird owners and our birds. Without
your help the Nanday Conure would have been banned in Pennsylvania. With your help we were able to show the
Commission that a ban of this bird was not necessary either to protect human health or wildlife habitat.
I hope that each of you who responded this time will view this victory as a learning experience, and that you will continue to
respond when we ask for help fighting other restrictive animal proposals that come up in other areas.
Thank you again.
Genny Wall
AFA Legislative VP
gennygem2@aol.com
www.afabirds.org
The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They recognized the
significance of man's spiritual nature, of his feelings and of his intellect. They knew that only a part of the pain, pleasure and
satisfactions of life are to be found in material things. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their
emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most
comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. To protect that right, every unjustifiable intrusion by the
government upon the privacy of the individual, whatever the means employed, must be deemed a violation of the Fourth
Amendment. And the use, as evidence in a criminal proceeding, of facts ascertained by such intrusion must be deemed a
violation of the Fifth.
--Justice Louis Brandeis OLMSTEAD v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928)
| NANDAY CONURES WILL NOT BE BANNED! YOUR LETTERS WORKED! THANK YOU TO ALL WHO WROTE! |
| AFA Legislative Vice President Genny Wall just emailed the AFA Board of Directors with the good news. As stated, please cross-post! Thank you to everyone who wrote in and sent letters to help. All aviculturists must unite in our fight to save the avicultural species we work with. If any legislation were to prevent ownership of cockatiels, you would want other bird owners to help you. Please keep alert in your respective states for ongoing legislation! |
Letter from AFA Legislative Vice President Genny Wall: