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What are the protections provided by the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (BGEPA)?

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What are the protections provided by the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (BGEPA)?

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The BGEPA prohibits anyone, without a permit issued by the Secretary of the Interior for very limited scientific or educational purposes, from “taking” bald eagles, including their parts, nests, or eggs. The Act imposes criminal and civil penalties on anyone (including associations, partnerships and corporations) in the U.S. or within its jurisdiction who, without a permit, takes, possesses, sells, purchases, barters, offers to sell or purchase or barter, transports, exports or imports at any time or in any manner a bald or golden eagle, alive or dead; or any part, nest or egg of these eagles. The BGEPA defines “take” to include: pursue, shoot, shoot at, poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest or disturb.