We had a high profile example here in the Pacific Northwest of animal rights extremism gone goof. A family who lived in the Olympic Mountain area (not in the state/federal forest proper) owned a house where an eagle built a nest in their back acreage. According to some silly state/federal law, they were then not allowed to change one iota of their property withing 400yds. No logging, no landscaping, not planting... nothing.
I would have shot that effing eagle out of spite and willingly went to jail.