I liked the bit that said:
"The crow explosion has created a moral quandary for Japan, a nation that
prides itself on nonviolence and harmony with nature, because culling
programs are the only truly effective method of population control."
Obviously they must have a moral quandary about whaling then????????????????
2008/5/8 Bill Stent <>:
> How about developing a less wasteful lifestyle?
>
> Bill
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Peter Shute
> Sent: Thursday, 8 May 2008 10:23 AM
> To: L&L Knight; Birding Aus
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] An interesting item on the clash between
> humansandcrows in Japan
>
> I found these two paragraphs interesting:
>
> "Behind the rise, experts and officials say, has been the growing
> abundance of garbage, a product of Japan's embrace of more wasteful
> Western lifestyles. This has created an orgy of eating for crows, which
> are scavengers. Some steps taken to reduce crows include putting garbage
> into yellow plastic bags, a color the birds supposedly cannot see
> through, and covering trash with fine-mesh netting, to prevent large
> beaks from reaching the goodies within."
>
> "In 2001, the city began setting traps in parks and nature reserves,
> using raw meat as a lure. In the following seven years, the city
> captured more than 93,000 crows, which it killed by sticking the meat in
> trash bags filled with poison gas."
>
> It sounds like a few million wheelie bins could solve them problem.
>
> Peter Shute
>
> wrote on Wednesday, 7 May 2008 8:10
> PM:
>
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/world/asia/07crows.html
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