Two men were charged in Montana after shooting and killing over 3,000 birds, including bald and golden eagles, and selling them for profit on the black market.

The indictment described Branson and Paul trafficking golden and bald eagles or their parts on at least 11 occasions between December 2020 and the stop of Branson by law enforcement on March 13, 2021.

Two men have been accused of killing thousands of birds including Golden and Bald eagles and selling their body parts on the “black market” — as one of the suspects bragged he was “on a ...

The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act was enacted in 1940 to protect the bald eagle. In 1962, Congress extended the Act to protect golden eagles.

Bald eagles, the U.S. national ... in Montana accused two men of killing about 3,600 birds and recorded at least 13 incidents in which protected eagles or their body parts were sold.

BILLINGS, Mont. — A man helped kill at least 118 eagles to sell their feathers and body parts on the black market as part of a long-running wildlife trafficking ring in the western U.S. that ...

And earlier this year a 48-year-old man from Washington state pleaded guilty to charges of killing bald eagles at the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana and selling their body parts and ...

The bald eagle was put on the endangered species list in 1978. Federal protections and regulation of pesticides containing DDT prompted a comeback. ... guilty in federal court to shooting eagles on a ...

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