Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sawed the Head Off a Whale and Drove It Home, Daughter Says - eviltoast
  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    33
    ·
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    That would be very very illegal. And weird. But holy shit illegal. (Was part of the Marine mammal education resource program over a decade ago)

    Very illegal even if the animal were deceased.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      2 months ago

      Mr. Kennedy, he wrote, may have violated not only the Marine Mammal Protection Act (1972) and the Endangered Species Act (1973) — two seminal marine conservation laws — but also the Lacey Act of 1900, a conservation law signed by President William McKinley that prohibits the transportation of illegally gathered wildlife, dead or alive, across state lines.

      Wow, yeah, I wasn’t expecting it to be that illegal!

      • floofloof@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        15
        ·
        edit-2
        2 months ago

        He’s probably trying to ditch it. Has anyone checked the ponds in Central Park for a partial dead whale lying under a pedal boat?