AP File Photo: New Oakland Athletics President David Kaval gestures during a media conference on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

1 The announcement of the Oakland A’s new ball park has sailed and that honeymoon is over. The Audubon Society is the first to throw their hat into the anti stadium movement saying the building a new park at Laney College would be disastrous for some 200 species of birds in what is considered the nation’s oldest refuge.

2 Audubon says their not anti baseball building at Lake Merritt is not the right location for a ballpark. The number one concern for the Audubon Society is the environmental issue and the wild life at Peralta College

3 Audubon also says with traffic and cars that with extra contaminants it would have an impact on wildlife at the Laney College location

4 The A’s have expressed that they want that location at Lake Merritt because of it’s close proximity to downtown, Chinatown, a nine minute walk to BART, and it’s  right there at the college

5 Also the Peralta faculty and community members have said they’ll also fight the new ball park saying it would effect the college’s educational mission, traffic conditions on game day would be horrendous, an it would also displace low income renters

Jerry Feitelberg covers Oakland A’s baseball for sportsradioservice.com