To save spotted owls, US plans to kill hundreds of thousands of West Coast barred owls
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their cousins.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service strategy released Wednesday is meant to prop up declining spotted owl populations in Oregon, Washington state and California. The Associated Press obtained details in advance.
Documents released by the agency show up to about 450,000 barred owls would be shot over three decades after the birds from the eastern U.S. encroached into the West Coast territory of two owls: northern spotted owls and California spotted owls. The smaller spotted owls have been unable to compete with the invaders, which have large broods and need less room to survive than spotted owls.
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They should leave nature alone and stop playing God
EXACTLY
I think the story is something else, which we don't know. For me this news sounds very fishy.
If an animal is in decline due to human behavior, that impacting behavior should be addressed. If the decline is due to natural competition, not introduced by humans, we should let nature take its course.
This is insane. Let nature take its corse . Stop trying to play god.
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THEY CARE ABOUT NOTHING.
The STUPIDEST plan I've ever heard. Does anyone else see the flaws?? We could end up with no owls.
The barred owls territory is whatever it can defend.
Yes! We will likely be overrun by rodents!
They need to stop trying to play GOD, they clearly aren't it!
Housing crisis everywhere..
What a wicked, horrible plan, and the wrong conclusion. None of the owls-whether spotted or barred-are the reason why the spotted are less populated. Besides, no one should be killing owls due to an abundance of one kind over another.
Absolutely unbelievable they want to kill a half a million birds are you kidding me are you absolutely kidding me someone needs to put these people in check and do a little checking on them
Clair is a sociopath
We need to show scientists the “cane toad” movie again.
Please give me an example of man interfering with nature, where it worked well.
I get so cranky about such ideas!
What about relocating the spotted owls? 😢
Yes! We should promote the spotted owl and not try to eradicate the Barred owl!
The Spotted Owl movement where a invasive species the Domesticus Californae migrated up here and managed to dismantle the logging industries of the Pacific Northwest. Sadly the parasite decided to burrow in deep and build apartments and condos because not enough room for its kind.
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Your memory is better than mine! Seattle's my home. I remember how so many men were being laid off... it was very hard for communities to stick around.
Getting rid of the wolves was a great thing until liberals reintroduced them. I lost one of my favorite hunting spots because the wolves decimated the deer population. The ranchers in the area are pi$$ed as well
The spotted owl has been in crisis for years now. Stopped logging in Washington bc of the spotted owl.
Ridiculous!
The Indians won't allow this. They know the feeling.
I completely disagree. I do not approve or enable this kind of sick behavior. Just rescue and seperate all 470,000 Barred Owls from spotted owls with no fatalities/deaths. United States you're tweaking. There shouldn't be killing off one species to save another. Everyone please spread awareness. All animals are endangered and all animals lives matter. S.O.S. - Save Our Species.
As a man living here in the US I have to agree with you it seems like our people with power are worshiping Satan full-time or something because the pure evil that's coming out of this country's government is superhuman and not in a good way. Just know that the rest of us Americans are normal everyday people we're just stuck in the middle of this nonsense. I mean really it's not easy for us to just pick up and move to another continent and become immigrants ourselves, but that may be in the future seeing that our laws and our government are completely unbearable and getting worse... In the meantime I feel that it is a terrible idea to eradicate any of these birds. I feel like we may end up with both species either gone or on the verge of it.
When man tries to "fix" nature they usually only ruin it!
Are they tasty
I would imagine they taste like chicken.
Buffalowl wings? Too soon?
😅 not going to lie before I read this comment or it's replies I was thinking all the same things.😅
How can you fight to save one by fighting to kill the other? Unacceptable.
They should relocate these owls to the lower mainland which is infested with mice and rats
Because people like you make too much sense. You're smart and you have good ideas and our country just can't go for that right now... Terrifyingly sad if you ask me.
wtf are we doing if the others are weak and getting outbred we should let them why are subsidizing the weakest what happened to survival of the fittest
I'm appalled by this so-called "solution." To save one species you commit a genocide on another? That's insane. I'm sure there are other solutions amenable to both owl species even if one is just letting nature take its course.
Instead of spending millions and millions of dollars to pay so-called professionals to go out in the woods and kill these animals and to spend all that money to do all of the other ways you plan on eliminating this animal why don't you spend that money to make a protected game reserve for these animals. We brought eagles back from the brink of Extinction by doing this and I didn't see us having to take the lives of 400 million Americans just to save the lives of this eagle. This just seems like a problem that's about ready to make both species extinct because man doesn't have the sense to keep things alive... By the way...I love how the video fades out at the end talking about hunters luring them in and then you fade it out right when it said blast them with shotguns. If that's your answer for everything then you should probably just let nature handle these owls and not interfere before you end up making both species extinct.
Leave Nature Alone
The more they screw with the food chain the worse things get for the ecosystem. Just leave the animals alone and hold industry accountable for the harm they do every day to the environment, then we can all thrive!
You voted for people with this thought process, don’t be surprised with the outcomes
Absolutely ridiculous!
Leave nature alone
What does Ukraine say?
Why can't the live together? Can't they share a habitat?
Who are we to kill a species? That’s to extreme, think of a more human way
What do you do if one endangered species kills another???! Not the case here, I know, bit what do you do
When the people making the plans are weetardad you get stuff like this
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Not everything needs saving, let nature take it's course
Habitat loss is another key factor in saving the Spotted Owl, yet they will do nothing for that. What hypocrisy.