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    Nesting Bald Eagles at Norfolk Botanical Garden, Virginia

     

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM EAGLE ON ALLIANCE   This is a media release from Eagle On Alliance, in the ongoing concern as to the plight of the resident eagles of Norfolk Botanical Gardens.  Please take a moment to read:   March 5, 2013 BALD EAGLES CONTINUE TO BUILD NEST AFTER NEST AT NORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN   After five months of harassment, eagles refuse to leave their territory Eagle advocacy group seeks humane solutions   Media Contact:   NorfolkEagles@aol.com   Norfolk, Virginia – After more than five months of harassment by the USDA with paintball guns, pyrotechnics, lights and the removal of five nests that they have built since early October, the resident bald eagles at Norfolk Botanical Garden (NBG) aren’t leaving.  This cruel treatment of our national symbol and the damage being done to the Garden through “tree modification” isn’t working and there is no proof that the methods being used to force the eagles to relocate have ever worked – at least not for this species of raptor. As the eagles begin building their sixth nest at the Garden, and the expenses associated with these dispersal programs pile up, Eagle On Alliance (EOA) continues to insist that there are better proven methods to protect Norfolk International Airport (ORF) and the bald

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