It’s deer-killing season. What’s an activist to do? Sometimes the call to use birth control seems the only available delay tactic when people are loading the guns.
But it’s coexistence with predators that we need to insert into advocacy. We might believe the public isn’t ready for coyotes. The public isn’t fond of running into deer on roads either. Natural predation would reduce that risk. Coyotes aren’t trying to create additional risks. Mainly they’re avoiding run-ins with us, moving at night where they live near us.
And greater danger lies ahead if we do not let predators live and thrive.
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It is so sad that humans unbalance ecosystems and then just kill “excess”, as a way of resolving the problem. As always, Lee, thank you for a thought provoking piece.