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Category: Animals & Environment
Deadline: October 31, 2007
The ecological integrity of Middle Island is under attack. This dynamic island ecosystem, a Lake Erie jewel and a haven for Carolinian wildlife of all kinds, is now being threatened by the very agency charged with its protection.
A proposal to micro-manage, impair and/or damage the island’s natural processes, in ways that will involve the lethal cull and disturbance of its wildlife, including the unscientific, unnecessary and cruel eradication of 80% of the island’s robust cormorant colony, is now on the table.
Insidiously proposed as a conservation strategy, this process will negatively impact on the natural evolution of Middle Island in an effort to maintain and control it in a static and artificial state. Culling of cormorants has been found to be extremely costly and ineffective over the long term.
We, the undersigned, formally request that Middle Island be left as a natural refuge subject to natural processes and that naturally occurring wildlife not be killed, managed or disrupted in any way.
Contact information: julie@zoocheck.com
Web link for more information: http://www.cormorants.ca
by Zoocheck
47 signatures
| Norman Taylor | Ottawa issues a stamp to honour Cormants; the mayor of Toronto declares a "Welcome Back to Cormorants Day" and fishermen convince the MNR to pick up their guns and shoot this only-recently revived species. INCREDIBLE | October 17, 2007 |
| N.W.Taylor | Where is the science to back up this cull (that euphemism for killing)? | October 17, 2007 |
| Tammy MacDonald-Flatt | October 17, 2007 | |
| Michelle Ainsworth | October 17, 2007 | |
| Deb Ozarko | Until humanity can control its own invasive and destructive population, we're hardly an authority on the population control of any other species! | October 17, 2007 |
| Paul MacKenzie | October 17, 2007 | |
| Virginia Thompson | Such human interference has been found to be ineffective . It is also a barbaric practice. | October 17, 2007 |
| Marisa Herrera | Homo sapiens destroys, abuses, kills, oppresses, rapes and massacres the biological systems that sustain all life on Earth. When is enough? Enough is NOW! | October 18, 2007 |
| Jean Martin | October 18, 2007 | |
| Peter Martin | Cormorants are amazing. Leave them alone to live in peace. | October 18, 2007 |
| David Brooks-Hill | October 18, 2007 | |
| Adam Hayes | I am a frequent visitor to Canada and hope to see Canada always improving its treatment of wildlife. It is a shame when a country with such a wealth of unspoiled land and wildlife fails to treat it well and humanely. | October 18, 2007 |
| Betty Jean Herner | Save the birds | October 18, 2007 |
| Deb Patterson | It is historically proven that 'management' of a wild area is bound to fail and will cause a snowball effect as changes in one species begins to impact another, all in a stupid attempt to make it some human's idea of 'perfect'. Leave natural areas alone. | October 18, 2007 |
| Deborah Harris | October 18, 2007 | |
| Frederick Osman | I would like to request that Middle Island be left as a natural refuge subject to natural processes and that naturally occurring wildlife not be killed, managed or disrupted in any way. Frederick Osman Ottawa, Ontario | October 18, 2007 |
| Tove Reece | True conservation is protecting animal, not killing them. | October 18, 2007 |
| Carol A Murawsky | Let nature be! | October 18, 2007 |
| Paul Harris | Let nature take care of itself. Cull the Ministry of Natural Resources. | October 18, 2007 |
| Susan Krajnc | October 18, 2007 |
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