A new, "Goosewatch" Facebook page has been established with the express purpose of preventing further goose massacres in New York City:
It is vital that everyone who cares about protecting geese in New York City sign up, follow and share this page to the greatest degrees possible.
For those outside of New York City and supporting the geese on a national and international level, please sign up with the Call of the Canada geese FB page, (if not having done so already):
The concept of Goosewatch is extremely important and its success critical to the protection of geese, not just in NYC, but around the country.
For better or worse, what occurs in New York City usually expands to other locations.
Certainly that has unfortunately been true of goose cullings, which, though seemingly begun in NYC almost ten years ago, have spread like some infectious and deadly disease all across the country.
But, hopefully the dedication and resolve to stop this carnage, (starting in New York City now) will similarly expand outward.
Today has been a mixture of both good and bad news for the geese.
The good news of course, is the continuing commitment to the geese and new efforts to save them locally.
The bad news is the announcement in several media outlets today of a planned 3-day "goose hunt" in a city park in Little Rock, Arkansas just a couple of days before this Christmas:
Just when one thinks it cannot get worse for the geese, it somehow does.
City Council members in Little Rock decided to close the public park for three days to allow for the hunt.
The geese will literally be sitting ducks for a carnage to occur just shortly before one of the highest holy days of the year for most Americans. Talk about irony. Obviously, no Christmas "greetings" for the geese in Arkansas -- unless one considers bullets to be greeting.
It is urged that people comment to the above article!
One has to wonder if the Little Rock council members considered at all, the likely media coverage to this bizarre and violent action just prior to Christmas, as well as the fact that many of the geese are likely to be migratory birds resting in Arkansas over the winter.
Migratory populations of Canada geese are already in serious decline without being blasted away towards the end of December.
A prior article about Little Rock geese mentioned that coyote cutouts had been used a few times to scare geese, but were "unsuccessful." But, nothing was mentioned about landscaping, hazing with trained Border Collies or egg addling -- methods we know for a fact, work to keep geese away. Nor has this community purchased a Naturesweeper
Naturesweep - In the Media which easily picks up goose droppings and renders them into fertilizer.
That only a GooseWatch could quickly be established in Little Rock, Arkansas before the planned Christmas massacre. (Or, better yet, a Goosewatch, International.)
The only "shootings" needed are those from cameras. -- PCA
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