The war against Long Island’s deer continues, and so does international opposition to the killings conducted by USDA’s Wildlife Services, paid for by the town of Southold and the Long Island Farm Bureau.

Over the course of six weeks, beginning in late February of 2014, Wildlife Services agents established three shooting zones and used spot lighting and thermal imaging to locate deer. Deer were lured to bait stations, and shot by Wildlife Services agents hiding in tree stands or ground blinds placed near the bait stations.

A total of 192 deer were killed (132 animals near the North Fork and 60 animals at the South Fork). The Long Island White-Deer Management Damage Demonstration Project Report touts the killing operation as “…successful in safely removing deer.”

Be prepared to read more about the “need to kill deer” due to their “enormous ecological and economic damages” as recent research has shown this will increase public acceptance of killing deer. Proponents of the traditional wildlife killing paradigm will continue to try to brainwash the public into believing that killing is the solution.

Any mass shooting of urban deer is a miserable failure to co-exist by not employing non-lethal methods, such as the use of wildlife fertility control. People are sick and tired of mass killings of wild animals, including urban deer. This is one reason why, according to a recent news article, nearly a year later, Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell claims, “I receive no less than 30 emails a day” generated from IDA’s alert  with opposition coming in from all over the world.

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