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To save spotted owls, US authorities plan to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species

In an effort to save the endangered spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are adopting a controversial plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill an estimated half a million spotted owls. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service strategy, released Wednesday, aims to shore up declining spotted owl populations… Read More »

To protect an endangered owl species, government biologists recommend killing other owls

The survival of one owl species depends on the extinction of another. That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pushing in its proposal to allow shooting of hundreds of thousands of barred owls in West Coast forests over the next 30 years. The service says the barred owl, which is not native to… Read More »