As an environmental…

As an environmental professional, passionate photographer and birdwatcher, I am objecting the proposed hunt on a Double-crested Cormorant, because it will create lots of disturbances and not only to cormorants, but to many other associated colonially-breeding species. I assume that North America knows enough examples when abundant species were eradicated in the short period of time. The classic example is a Passenger Pigeon, which also was considered as a pest and just shot by anyone, who liked shooting and blood on the hand just for pleasure. I assume that in our very critical for biodiversity time, this precedent can more harm to general biodiversity conservation and to implementation by Canada its obligations to CBD for execution of Biodiversity Action Plan, associated with Aichi Biodiversity Targets (2010-2020). I assume that it should be more consultations done that to elaborate more civic and appropriate ways to control population growth. I assume that it should be done more research that to know critical points of species biology, which will allow to decrease its population.

We often talk about ecological integrity, but the solution to hunt on cormorants from March to December is absolutely out such integrity. It is just example of outdated thinking in XXI century.