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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 »