Animal Protection Groups Stand Up to Cruel Cormorant Killing

The cormorants of Middle Island in Canada's Point Pelee National Park have now become a target of the very agency charged with protecting them. Parks Canada plans to shoot and kill thousands of Middle Island's naturally occurring cormorant population in a cruel, misguided effort to protect the island's ecology. Parks Canada claims that the cull is necessary to save the island's vegetation, but cormorants play an important role in the natural process of regenerating the island's ever-evolving flora. The cormorant kills occur during the nesting season by shooting, as the birds are incubating their eggs. Read more...