US To Send Hunters To KILL Half A Million Owls To Save Its Endangered Cousin

The US Fish and Wildlife Service plans to send hunters to kill half a million barred owls to save its endangered cousin, the California spotted owl.

The lives of at least 500,0000 invasive barred owls are in jeopardy because they are invading the range of the critically endangered California spotted owl.The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) intends to kill over half a million nocturnal birds that are native to the eastern US by releasing "hunters" into California, Oregon, and Washington.

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The plan calls for hunters to employ barred owl territorial sounds to draw owls and shoot them on sight. However, in places where it is not advisable to use firearms, the animal would be captured and put to death.

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