I came across this article from The New York Times online, and I was kinda perturbed after reading about a mass goose kill in Prospect Park of Brooklyn, New York. Resident's discovered that the wildlife authorities had rounded up the 400 resident geese and lethally gassed them. The most horrible fact about this is that they cant even get their story straight. One reason could possibly have some validity and that is they killed the geese that live within 7 miles of the La Guardia and Kennedy airports. Apparently they have been slowly killing off geese since 2009, when some geese caused Flight 1549 to emergency land in the Hudson River. The other reason is that they were scaring away potential property owners near the park. The residents and some wildlife activists expressed their thoughts and concerns but no action followed. I wonder what wildlife policies(ie. migratory bird act) could have protected the birds from this unfair fate?
Here is the article
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/where-geese-were-thinned-their-population-thickens/?scp=5&sq=wildlife&st=cse
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