URGENT! Help Save Important Bird Habitat in South Texas!

There has been a proposition to destroy important old growth forest on South Padre island in South Texas that is great for migratory birds. Here is how we can stop it from being destroyed. What you need to know, from Jusin LeClaire: "Perhaps the final battle to save the SPI Convention Center native habitat is coming this Tuesday. The SPI City Council has decided NOT to listen to the wills of thousands of their constituents. They are sticking with their latest plans to destroy the majority of native habitat at the Convention Center for the expansion project (see photo – at least half of the habitat on the south side of the property and within the driving loop will be removed). There is officially an agenda item (https://tinyurl.com/ac53j9j3) to seek approval for the CC expansion plans on the Cameron County Commissioners’ Court meeting for this coming *Tuesday, June 17, at 930am*. They need a majority vote from the commissioners to move forward because the property is on county land. It sounds like Commissioners Garza, Benavides, and Ruiz may be on our side thanks to all of your support so far, but who knows what the truth is and what has been happening behind our backs. HOW TO HELP: Submit a public comment against the agenda item regardless if you can attend in person or not. Here’s how- Download the “public comment registration form” https://tinyurl.com/4wy4nb7k. State your info, check the boxes to say that you are “against” agenda item 4-E and that you do not wish to address the commissioners, add a quick comment to say you are against any expansion that requires native habitat destruction at the SPI convention center, and email the form to *publiccomment@co.cameron.tx.us* BEFORE 845am on June 17. It’ll take 10 minutes of your time, but enough emails against this agenda over the weekend may help push a majority of the commissioners in our direction. Please do also attend the meeting if you can. Feel free to send a/another email out to the commissioners themselves as well. Thanks for any and all help! (special thanks to Karen Nussbaumer for staying on top of details and sharing it all asap). If you want to share this post, you can go to my personal page and share directly from there (or just copy/paste). Judge Eddie Trevino (956) 544-0830 etrevino@co.cameron.tx.us Sofia Benavides (956) 574-8167 sofia.benavides@co.cameron.tx.us Joey Lopez (956) 983-5091 Joey.Lopez@co.cameron.tx.us David Garza (956) 361-8209 dagarza@co.cameron.tx.us Gus Ruiz (956) 427-8069 Gus.ruiz@co.cameron.tx.us" Save the South Padre Island Bird Habitat Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/987229576083150/ Link to the petition: https://www.change.org/p/preserve-the-migratory-birding-habitat-at-south-padre-island-convention-center?recruiter=1177294348&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&fbclid=IwY2xjawK8jnNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETEyZzBIM20zY1ZRQ2l4b0J2AR4tGk-XgM9QnEXwbZ57dz0K6z6mvOPI0E26dvtwNDVrYJ3n2X12_uOH8tuLig_aem_v1EyGQqL8aJd4-3ABp4wQQ Join our FREE communities Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15w41xWVZL/ Discord: https://discord.gg/bZXD6ZwhnH Special thanks to our members Liz McQuaid, Sarah Coffey, Scott, Barbara Cole, and Sarah! You can support us on Ko-fi here! https://ko-fi.com/badgerlandbirding Gear Links (As Amazon Associates or other affiliates we do earn from qualifying purchases) OM-SYTEM OM-1 Mark II and 150-600mm lens https://explore.omsystem.com/us/en/catalogsearch/result/?q=+OM-1+Mark+II Panasonic LUMIX FZ80 4K Digital Camera Used for most bird videos) - check credits as we do source some photos/videos elsewhere which is noted in the description https://amzn.to/3GZl3Mu Cayer FP2450 Fluid Head Tripod, 75 inches Aluminium Tripod Derek's lighter tripod https://amzn.to/3suX5CK Nikon D5300 Derek's vlogging and macro camera https://amzn.to/3HF8jeh Rode VideoMicPro Compact Directional On-Camera Microphone Derek's external microphone for Nikon D5300 https://amzn.to/3oH8YnS Connect with us! https://badgerlandbirding.wordpress.com https://www.instagram.com/badgerlandbirding/ https://www.facebook.com/BadgerlandBirding https://www.tiktok.com/@badgerlandbirding\ Some photos used under the following licenses: CC by 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Public Domain (PD): https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/ #Birding #BirdWatching #BadgerlandBirding