Please look at alternatives. Death and killing is not the answer.
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Karen Kendrick
9 years ago
In Canada's 150th year, why isn't our national animal - the beaver - not protected from being hunted/killed in this way? They are a necessary part of wetland ecosystems.
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Teresa Knight
9 years ago
Beavers were here first.
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tammy
9 years ago
PLEASE STOP KILLING innocent animals. they have every right to be here on this planet then humans. ifr anything, humans should back off. stop taking animals habitats away. its humans who are invading and destroying all of mother nature's gifts.
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Kathleen Laird
9 years ago
The City of Kingston should look into more humane options.
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Tracey Hamilton
9 years ago
This is unacceptable!!!! There is no excuse for this. Evolve!
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Wendy Adlam
9 years ago
The fact that the CRCA are actively participating in the killing of beavers is a disgrace to the word conservation. What happened to handling beavers in an humane way. It is humans who have encroached on their homesteads, building homes on a flood plain and then complaini these animals are causing problems. The human race disgusts me sometimes.
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John Leach
9 years ago
They are part of our environment, and as is so often the case, you don't know what you got til it's gone.
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Dawn Sadler
9 years ago
I support adopting a solution that doesn't involve killing beavers.
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JOY EDWARDS
9 years ago
The answer to a problem is not to kill it. That is not a solution. But, we always take the easy way. Man is a heartless, killing machine.
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Marsha Esford
9 years ago
stop killing these beavers
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meredith mabee-biss
9 years ago
there is ALWAYS a better way...and we need to strive towards it. please stop this
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Opie Smith
9 years ago
A little bit of education is needed here with a little less emotional reaction.
Before Europeans came to North America, trapping was an integral part of the First Nations way of life, providing food, clothing and shelter. The same holds true today for some but with our reliance on convenience (i.e. groceries and clothing) this way of life is no longer interconnected with our relationship to nature.
There are numerous reasons why we trap “nuisance” (in our eyes) beavers - flooding, crop damage, tree damage and safety concerns. Yes, I agree we have to look at ourselves in the mirror but it’s not a question as to the killing but more the reasons this is done and generally it is our increasing foot print into/adjacent wetland habitat.
Yes, beavers are integral to our landscape, they engineer and create wetland habitats that are our “rain forests of the north” and I won’t go into the importance of wetlands here but please do your homework on the importance of them in our society.
Another aspect of beaver management that is often overlooked and also part of our increasing foot print in nature is the lack of natural predators in our environments, which again is our doing as humans. Only beavers at a young age 1-2 years are vulnerable to the natural cycle of life. After this time, beavers generally do really well and thrive; thus over populating areas where the “destruction” and “stagnation” of wetland habitat is compromised. Again, please do your homework and research the natural cycles of wetlands to understand how they need to cycle to be diverse habitats for various creatures.
I will end this by saying, please don’t be so quick to judge; this is a multi-faceted issue. Be informed and try to understand that this is not a single answer issue. Beavers and wetlands are interconnected along with our human existence.
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Nancy McLennan
9 years ago
Stop this needless killing!
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Robbie Innes
9 years ago
In keeping with 150 years of Canada's birth, when the French trapped and killed so many beavers to make hats! How far have we really come?
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David Hamber
9 years ago
Beavers enrich our environment in countless ways. They improve the ecodiversity and act as natural (and free) flood protectors.
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Janice Clapp
9 years ago
Please can we not find a way to live in harmony and stop thinking we are the better and more valued species. There are other ways to deal with this problem and the barbaric practice of drowning these creatures and their young must be stopped!
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Andrea McGowan
9 years ago
Please consider alternative and creative options to the current, barbaric practice. Work WITH Nature, not against it.
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Sean Liddle
9 years ago
The current process is outdated and based on an ancient opinion that if an animal is causing an issue you kill it rather than work around it.
Do the right thing!
Please look at alternatives. Death and killing is not the answer.
In Canada's 150th year, why isn't our national animal - the beaver - not protected from being hunted/killed in this way? They are a necessary part of wetland ecosystems.
Beavers were here first.
PLEASE STOP KILLING innocent animals. they have every right to be here on this planet then humans. ifr anything, humans should back off. stop taking animals habitats away. its humans who are invading and destroying all of mother nature's gifts.
The City of Kingston should look into more humane options.
This is unacceptable!!!! There is no excuse for this. Evolve!
The fact that the CRCA are actively participating in the killing of beavers is a disgrace to the word conservation. What happened to handling beavers in an humane way. It is humans who have encroached on their homesteads, building homes on a flood plain and then complaini these animals are causing problems. The human race disgusts me sometimes.
They are part of our environment, and as is so often the case, you don't know what you got til it's gone.
I support adopting a solution that doesn't involve killing beavers.
The answer to a problem is not to kill it. That is not a solution. But, we always take the easy way. Man is a heartless, killing machine.
stop killing these beavers
there is ALWAYS a better way...and we need to strive towards it. please stop this
A little bit of education is needed here with a little less emotional reaction. Before Europeans came to North America, trapping was an integral part of the First Nations way of life, providing food, clothing and shelter. The same holds true today for some but with our reliance on convenience (i.e. groceries and clothing) this way of life is no longer interconnected with our relationship to nature. There are numerous reasons why we trap “nuisance” (in our eyes) beavers - flooding, crop damage, tree damage and safety concerns. Yes, I agree we have to look at ourselves in the mirror but it’s not a question as to the killing but more the reasons this is done and generally it is our increasing foot print into/adjacent wetland habitat. Yes, beavers are integral to our landscape, they engineer and create wetland habitats that are our “rain forests of the north” and I won’t go into the importance of wetlands here but please do your homework on the importance of them in our society. Another aspect of beaver management that is often overlooked and also part of our increasing foot print in nature is the lack of natural predators in our environments, which again is our doing as humans. Only beavers at a young age 1-2 years are vulnerable to the natural cycle of life. After this time, beavers generally do really well and thrive; thus over populating areas where the “destruction” and “stagnation” of wetland habitat is compromised. Again, please do your homework and research the natural cycles of wetlands to understand how they need to cycle to be diverse habitats for various creatures. I will end this by saying, please don’t be so quick to judge; this is a multi-faceted issue. Be informed and try to understand that this is not a single answer issue. Beavers and wetlands are interconnected along with our human existence.
Stop this needless killing!
In keeping with 150 years of Canada's birth, when the French trapped and killed so many beavers to make hats! How far have we really come?
Beavers enrich our environment in countless ways. They improve the ecodiversity and act as natural (and free) flood protectors.
Please can we not find a way to live in harmony and stop thinking we are the better and more valued species. There are other ways to deal with this problem and the barbaric practice of drowning these creatures and their young must be stopped!
Please consider alternative and creative options to the current, barbaric practice. Work WITH Nature, not against it.
The current process is outdated and based on an ancient opinion that if an animal is causing an issue you kill it rather than work around it.