Conservation groups intervene in demands to defend the lethal elimination of barrads owls

These environmental groups have joined by the government, in opposition to animal rights groups.

Tom Wheeler is the executive director of the non -profit conservation organization based in Arcata, California, Epic. He said that, like animal rights groups, they also believe that individual lives of wild animals are precious, but “we also maintain that ecosystems are real and important and that species are real and important. And that the preservation of ecosystems and species is really important and it is worth protecting. ”

Wheeler said it is necessary to eliminate invasive barrades in the region to give researchers more time to find a long -term solution to the growing threat of extinction for the spotted owls of the north.

Barradas owls are invasive to the west coast and are larger and more aggressive than stained owls. That leads them to overcome the stained owl.

BARRED BUDO MANAGEMENT PLAN It was completed last year by the US fishing and life service. UU. That plan simply implies humanly barrad or hybrid of barrad and stained owls humanly. Wheeler said that capturing and releasing barrads in another place is not feasible due to the amount of barrades that must be eliminated.

“We have no place to free thousands of barrades without affecting the environment,” he said.

Animal rights groups say that the government is violating federal environmental law, and that the project is finally condemned to fail due to lack of funds.

“The service (of fish and wildlife of the United States) affirms that it has” legal and ethical responsibility “to kill almost half a million migratory birds. This” legal and ethical responsibility “seems to be limited, however, shoot dense forest owls at night; In your demand.

Wheeler said they are joining this demand because he does not believe that the new Trump administration worries a lot about the problems of the western forest.

“I think that to the extent that it cares, it is like a political weapon to try after the Democratic governors in the western states by the forest fire,” he said.

Wheeler said these groups want to demonstrate that many environmentalists support this Barred owl management program.

The judge in Washington has already approved the motion of the environmental group to join the lawsuit. Wheeler said that means that they can provide their own opinions, giving the judge another perspective to consider in the case.

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