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    SHOULD YOU KILL ONE SPECIES TO SAVE ANOTHER?

    Nov 19, 2020 6 minutes
    Report by James Fair

    Since last year, Marc Bekoff, emeritus professor at the University of Colorado, has been among a group of people fighting a cull of Canada geese in Denver by biologists from the US Department of Agriculture. The city’s park officials say droppings from thousands of resident geese, which live around many of the most popular parks and lakes, are getting into waterways and spreading disease, and numbers need to be reduced.

    “They round them up, put them in portable cages and onto a truck and take them somewhere and gas them,” Bekoff tells me. Last year, he says, they killed about 1,600 geese, this year it was going to be 4,000.

    “But I was [recently] told that the killing has stopped at about 500, and I believe that the discussions we’ve been having with people at the highest level have played a role here,” he continues. “We are trying to get a commitment for next year that killing will be off the

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