From the NY Observer:
With all the excitement of the summer and everyone making plans for the 4th, it's unlikely that you will have noticed that some of the city's other residents, our park's native Canada geese, are disappearing.
The continued round-up and slaughter of New York City's geese continued yesterday with the removal and destruction of around 500 geese in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, which was caught on video by local geese activists Goosewatch NYC.
The cull is part of a larger bird removal program carried out by the United States Department of Agriculture, which has been ongoing since 2009. Another round-up was carried out two weeks ago at Inwood Hill Park, where all but one of the resident geese were taken.
David Karopkin, the head of GooseWatch, said in a statement today that: "I am more committed than ever to fighting these roundups in NYC, and everywhere. It is disgusting and cruel, it doesn't accomplish anything, and it needs to end. "
Mr. Karopkin told us this morning that he was present at the collection of the geese and was threatened with arrest while attempting to document the proceedings.
USDA officials say that the clearing of the geese is necessary in order to prevent air traffic accidents, such as the infamous Hudson Miracle plane crash in 2009.
Mr. Karopkin and associates however allege that the removal of geese is cruel and unnecessary, and that the USDA are guilty of public deception.
The government is apparently trying to nearly halve the Canada goose population in 17 Atlantic states, to 650,000 from 1.1 million.
The geese are loaded onto a truck and taken away:
Now, while I know some of you will say this program is necessary in order to reduce the goose population, the fact is that the program has no effect on the population of the birds nor has it prevented bird strikes. The most common birds to get sucked into planes are starlings and gulls, not geese. This is the government trying to make like it look like they took action when they did nothing of the sort. The geese they rounded up are likely year-round residents that don't fly very high and aren't a threat to aircraft. I guess someone needed a contract. Again.
10 comments:
Let's see how our new garbage location in Garbage Point affects La Guardia.
The people making these decisions are total fucking assholes! I hope every conservation group speaks out against them!
We're gassing the wrong creatures here!
Shameful.
The senseless killing of innocent geese, the barbaric destruction of stately old trees, as noted in the next post. How did out priorities get so out of whack?
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Let's see how our new garbage location in Garbage Point affects La Guardia.
The people making these decisions are total fucking assholes! I hope every conservation group speaks out against them!
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The problem is it's built already. How many millions of taxpayers dollars went into creating this debacle? The Bloomturd administration is for the birds! So I'm giving him the bird.
David Karopkin, the head of GooseWatch, said in a statement today that: "I am more committed than ever to fighting these roundups in NYC, and everywhere. It is disgusting and cruel, it doesn't accomplish anything, and it needs to end. "
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Gooselover Karopkin is going to clean up the prodigious volume of turds that these avians produce? In some parks you have to play hop-scotch to avoid stepping in the crap.
True the most common birds to get sucked into planes are starlings % gulls however today's high bypass jet engines can survive that.
(as usual these activists only tell ya 1/2 the story
Canadian geese take out engines 99% of the time, smashing the turbine blades spinning at 25,000 RPM. These geese are also nasty "poop machines" (5 pounds a day per bird)that don't belong here.
The only aircraft threatened by Canada Geese are Airbuses. Those planes need to be decommissioned because planes with newer, safer engines have replaced them. But airlines don't want to invest in them, so we get stupid programs like this instead.
I think many other company's are re-fitting and using these puny engines (underpowered aircraft) Crappy.
A trip NY (JFK) to LAX California now takes 6+ hours and the seats are closer together and the re-cycled air smells of underarm it's MISERY.
The 747s back in the 80s took 3:40.
Airbuse and all "fly by wire" control only aircraft should never have been issued flight certificates to operate in this Country.
Aside the geese issue 1 EMP from a terrorist device or mini nuke on some roof or bridge all in a 500 mile radius will fall out the sky.
These "suits" are placing fuel economy and cockpit crew costs over safety
The geese should sue for false advertising.
I assume no one is rounding up seagulls because they can't sell them . the criminalization of birds is a nightmare, that someone has to be making money from.
are gang bangers and day laborers in danger of being sucked into plane engines? then they could be rounded up and carted off too.
this has been going on for decades---bird strikes are serious, costing dollars and people's life----I remember an article regarding such, (smashing thru the cockpit's window, not the engine). the previous methods were definitely not humane.
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