create controversy after killing owls to save species

The US federal government has been trying for decades to save the spotted owl from the north, a native bird that in 1990 was declared endangered and reached the cover of Time magazine. Authorities banned the cutting down of trees on millions of hectares to protect the habitat of this bird, but its population continues to decline. The solution, kill your owl listed owl to save the mottled. The owl listed is the great enemy of spotting: It reproduces more often, has more babies per year and eats the same prey: squirrels and forest rats. Today it outnumber the mottled in many of the natural regions of mottled. The Fish and Wildlife Service experiment began in 2015 and poses so many moral dilemmas that when it was first proposed in 2012, the wildlife and fish service hired an ethics expert to help decide if there were acceptable ways to do so. humanly In four small studios in parts of Washington, Oregon and northern California, they have been killing owls listed with 12-caliber shotguns to see if the mottled returns to its natural habitat to reproduce once its rival leaves. The Fish and Wildlife Service can kill up to 3,600 owls listed. If the program, which costs 5 million dollars, works, it will be expanded to other territories. The authorities, for example, split the neck of thousands of thrush to save the avetoro, a singing bird that was on the verge of extinction. To preserve salmon in the northwest and perch in the center of the country, federal and state agencies killed thousands of seabirds called double-crested cormorants. And last year, Congress passed a law that facilitated the killing of sea lions in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and other places to preserve Chinook salmon on the Columbia River.

• 2019-10-15T18:11:25+00:00
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