Could you all please take 2 minutes of your time and sign this important petition? Stop Cormorant Slaughter The Army Corps of Engineers is planning to kill 16,000 Double-crested Cormorants—more than 25 percent of the entire western North American cormorant population—in a misdirected effort to reduce avian predation on endangered salmon. The cormorants live and nest on East Sand Island, a globally-significant Important Bird Area (IBA) in Oregons lower Columbia River estuary. While cormorants do prey on salmon, the fish are endangered because of dams, pollution, habitat loss, and an array of other factors—not because of the cormorants. The Army Corps has ignored advice to pursue non-lethal measures first, opting instead to immediately propose lethal control. Tell the Army Corps that you oppose killing 16,000 Double-crested Cormorants at the East Sand Island. You can send the sample letter below, or edit the letter with your own words for even greater impact.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 01:07:40 +0000
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