In a newscast on Nov. 25 David Suzuki said "nature must be preserved." That is a strangely hypocritical statement considering the number of animals being killed to save endangered species.
To be clear Mr. Suzuki and the Suzuki Foundation are not doing the killing themselves, they use acts such as the Species at Risk Act of Canada, the courts etc., to have a species declared at risk or endangered.
The area where the endangered species lives is then declared as critical habitat for that species, now the government must in five years produce a program to save the endangered species.
Now we get to the killing, any and every species living inside a designated critical habitat, that poses a threat as competition for resources (i.e. food, living space, etc.) can and will be removed and or killed by order the government in full compliance with the Species at Risk Act.
At present we are killing, what will eventually be thousands of Barred and Horned owls, wolves and grizzly bears for doing exactly what nature intended them to do.
Barred and Horned owls are expanding their hunting and breeding territory. As their numbers increase they are moving into the habitat of the spotted owls, causing the decline in their numbers to the point of natural extinction.
Moose, elk and caribou are the natural prey of wolves and to a lesser extent the grizzly bear. The job of these predators is to keep the prey animals at a healthy, sustainable number and for this; through the avocations of the environmental movement to save the woodland caribou we are eradicating these predators throughout this critical habitat.
As the numbers of these endangered species increase it will cause a rapid decline in their food supply ending in the long, slow death by starvation. This is also going to happen to the seal populations of the Atlantic as the environmental movement demands the removal of their major predator man.
There have been 90 million species that have inhabited this planet, 99 per cent have become extinct, pushed out of existence by newer more complex, more adaptable species. This process is now seen as being unnatural and declaring every species that nature is pushing into extinction must be labeled endangered and saved even if it requires the destruction of those more complex, more adaptable species for doing what nature intended them to do.
Larry Barnes
Prince George
