Please reconsider this…

Please reconsider this proposal to create a hunting season for the double crested cormorants in Ontario. This proposal does not account for the overall impact that this type of devastation creates in the cormorant’s environment. Using civilian hunting licensing to control an animal population is irresponsible and unscientific right from the start. It is also inhumane and sets a low standard of care and responsibility to our wildlife and environment.

As a taxpayer in this area, I am asking for greater attention to the welfare of our wildlife and wild land by reducing the rights of hunters and eliminating their devastating impact on our wildlife. If controls are necessary to balance the cormorant population, then natural predators could be introduced or a restructuring of our idea of what balance means in this situation.

To say that cormorants are negatively impacting our environment is irresponsible and irrational. The human impact on fish populations is far greater and more devastating. From the aesthetic perspective, again human activity has a greater negative impact and it is the human impact that needs to be addressed without the use of hunting to devastate any of our wild lands.

This situation also lends itself to review that hunters have on other people (who aren’t hunters) being forced to deal with the horror of meeting a hunter during a hike or on a lake or river. These moments can be devastating to the wellbeing of other people as well as the animals being killed or being present during a massacre.

Please put a stop to this concept that this is in anyway a decent means to mange the health of our environment.