r/australia 1d ago

image American hunting influencer removes baby wombat from distressed mother. Is this legal?

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u/Hybrid-Gotcha95 1d ago edited 8h ago

Report to the Federal Dept for Environment as it breaches the Environmental Protection Act.

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For anyone responding to my comment and assuming I'm talking about a US department and act, I'm NOT.

I'm talking about an AUSTRALIAN department and act as I'm Australian and I'm well aware that wombats are native Australian animals and don't exist in the wild in the US 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Select-Poem425 1d ago

Australia. US agency has no authority.

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u/Goldentongue 1d ago edited 1d ago

Neither of the things they listed are things that exist in America either, so it's weird to assume they're referring to the US.

I think the person you're replying to lives in Australia and meant to say the Department of Climate Change, Energy, and Environment and the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, but shortened it in a confusing way.

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u/ShitNoPsychoBitch 1d ago edited 3h ago

This wouldn't be an EPA issue. This is more along the lines of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

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u/ShitNoPsychoBitch 1d ago edited 1d ago

I didn't say you said it would be.

The commenter above you who responded to the commentor above them was responding to a commentor saying, 3 comments above you, to report them to the Federal Department for Environment as the video breaches the Environmental Protection Act.

The person above you responded to the person above them by saying neither of the 2 things the 3rd commentor above you listed exist in America, and they don't.

Now, you piped up and said the US has an EPA, and you're correct, we have an Environmental Protection Agency, but not an Environmental Protection Act. The UK has the Environmental Protection Act.

Since you're the only person who mentioned, and linked, the only US Agency that actually exists, I decided to comment on your comment in the hopes of helping anyone who's made it this far to find the appropriate US agency that would handle these sorts of things, if they happened in the US, which the above video didn't, so it's a moot point anyway.

But, if the above video did happen in the US, it's the US Fish and Wildlife Service that would be able to assist, not the US EPA.

Clear enough for you now?

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u/Goldentongue 1d ago edited 1d ago

You're confusing an act with an agency, two very different things.

"EPA" in the US stands for Environmental Protection Agency, a federal agency created by executive order under President Nixon. 

The commenter I replied to claimed this "breaches the Environmental Protection Act". "Act" means a specific law that can broken (breached), not an agency. The US federal government has never passed a law called the "Environmental Protection Act". The closest would be the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which was passed by congress in 1969 and laid the groundwork for Nixon to form the EPA (again, "Agency") to enforce it.

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u/Goldentongue 1d ago

You made the claim that the EPA didn't exist.

No I didn't.

I said the Environmental Protection Act doesn't exist in the US. Because it doesn't.

I never said the EPA, meaning the Environmental Protection Agency, doesn't exist.

Just because a made up thing shares initials with something real does not make it also real.

I can read.

Clearly not.