Phil Lewis: To save West Coast spotted owls, US officials plan to use trained shooters to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls

To save West Coast spotted owls, US officials plan to use trained shooters to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls

To save spotted owls, US officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl speciesabcnews.go.com 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 in coming decades

This logic seems flawed tbh

Is the ecological niche that barred and spotted owls both apparently fill in 100% the same?

I mean the functional overlap aside, the issue at heart was the destruction of habitat and this is a capitalist cope rather than a legislative rally isn't it?

That's true, yes.

As the world's most destructive invasive species it is wrong for us to make other animals pay for our destruction of their habitat and our warming of the planet. All we do is take other lives, whether by chainsaw or rifle.

is a species invasive if environmental destruction forces it to migrate? the question is getting trickier to answer as climate change reshuffles species worldwide. Isobel Whitcomb with a vital story and a gorgeous ode to barred owls for Atmos 🧪🌎

Barred Owls Blur Lines Between Invasive Species and Refugees | Atmosatmos.earth As climate change reshuffles species ranges, the distinction between invasive species and climate migrants is becoming more and more muddied.

If people want to decry this as barbaric, would you rather let them starve to death? That seems worse to me.

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