{"id":1846,"date":"2018-12-01T13:03:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unasblogca.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/01\/whats-wrong-with-culls\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T16:12:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:12:48","slug":"whats-wrong-with-culls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unasblog.ca\/?p=1846","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Wrong with Culls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1848 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/unasblog.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/images-1.jpeg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\"><\/p>\n<p>It was upsetting to read about two more culls being proposed by the hunting and fishing lobby, groups and some First Nation groups here in Canada. They want to target west cost seals and sea lions, and Ontario\u2019s cormorants. Both of these share a common diet of fish which seems to the excuse or \u201cproblem\u201d. The claim is they eat too much fish, depriving humans and other wildlife of this diet. This is alot of nonsense. Culling of wildlife remains problematic, controversial and it\u2019s proponants completely unarmed with any facts or regard for facts as none support their claims for a cull need.<\/p>\n<div>Wildlife culls have no merit and are an ignorant and highly political act of the far right, the savage and stupid against \u201celite\u201d education, information, kindness, compassion and our ability to find non lethal, kind solutions and to face facts, the truths and blame humans for our own problems instead of animals.<\/div>\n<div>If culling humans is wrong, culling animals is wrong and it is murder. We can only morally kill in self defense, the insenient, or to protect ourselves from the evil, savage and criminally psychotic. Killing wildlife or any animals is not the moral answer or solution.<\/p>\n<p>We can manage wildlife kindly and to their benefit; manage overpopulation humanely, if found to be a real issue, and stop fishing and eating fish to allow stocks and the ecosystem return to its natural, plentiful state. It\u2019s humans depleteing the oceans and wildlife of fish, not seals or marine birds.<\/p>\n<p>To preserve fish populations, we as humans need to stop eating marine life or we will empty the oceans, kill all the marine life that feed on them and that keep the oceans clean. These culls proposals have merit only in that they highlight problems of human behavior that needs to be addressed. The obvious solution is to stop the culls and start modifying human practises and behavior to match the natural world\u2019s needs, not the other way around. This is the painless, peaceful way to deal with wildlife human conflict. Wildlife have every right as we do to live, eat and thrive in peace. We need to respect them and their rights, and intervene only to help and if necessary humanely control numbers.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>Feral cat populations are easily maintained, so can wildlife be, if its even needed, and there are jobs and careers in doing so. Humanity needs to stop culling, address it\u2019s own habits in our changing world, acknowledge the needs of the natural world and our responsibility to protect, assist and understand it. We should cherish wildlife, and stop imposing our \u201cneeds\u201d and order on other species and nature.<\/p>\n<p>Nature is wildlife\u2019s home and we humans need to acknowledge it\u2019s us and our sin that are endangering it and other species populations, and that we have a responsibility to do something about this very real problem. It\u2019s time to give wildlife their rights, start changing our habits and start viewing ourselves as caretakers of our lands, it\u2019s many species and stop being the pirates, plunderers, polluters, murderers and thieves of it that we are. It\u2019s the lowest of humanity, this lack of care, understanding, respect and love of wildlife and nature. We need to address and amend this failing as humanity can only progress when it divests itself of the sin, arrogance, hate and ignorance that is at the root of this drive to kill all and claim all for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>We are the dominant species, but that indicates responsibility, not rights. We have to care, assist and allow all species their equal rights and take full blame for our destruction of the natural world. We need to go vegan, rewild and protect wildlands, waters and their inhabitants. Stop all culls and implement knowledgable humane wildlife support and management. These are the real steps forward and solutions to the imagined problem of wildlife populations. They are also necessary for humanity to progress, evolve and for the continuancce of a beautiful,sustainable, habitable planet and its species. We need to address our own sin and selfishness in this regard, stop culling and learn to be proper stewarts and caretakers of our planet and natural world, as we should and need to be.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was upsetting to read about two more culls being proposed by the hunting and fishing lobby, groups and some First Nation groups here in Canada. They want to target west cost seals and sea lions, and Ontario\u2019s cormorants. 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