New Slaughter Proposed

Middle Island, part of Point Pelee National Park, is a small island in the western Lake Erie basin that is home to a wide variety of wildlife. But the ecological integrity of Middle Island is now being challenged by Parks Canada, the very agency charged with its protection. A proposal to micro-manage, impair and possibly damage Middle Island’s natural processes, in ways that may include the slaughter and disturbance of wildlife, is now being considered. Insidiously proposed as a conservation strategy, the proposal will negatively impact on the natural evolution of Middle Island in an effort to maintain and control it in a static and artificial state.

The Parks Canada proposal specifically singles out Double-crested cormorants, a native colonial water bird, by claiming that their numbers are threatening the island and that thousands of them need to be slaughtered. Double-crested cormorants are a native Ontario water bird and a part of the natural ecology of Middle Island. The Parks Canada proposal to manage them is ill-conceived, short sighted, a waste of resources and enormously cruel.

Help Ontario's Cormorants Today!

Raise this issue today with Environment Canada Minister John Baird.
Let him know that the proposal to slaughter cormorants on Middle Island, part of Point Pelee National Park, must be stopped. Tell him cormorants are a part of the natural ecology of Middle Island and that it should be allowed to evolve in a natural way. Remind him that their is no way to humanely kill large numbers of birds in the field and that doing so is an archaic, destructive and cruel method of wildlife management that has no scientific or ecological justification.

John Baird, Minister of the Environment
Les Terrasses de la Chaudiere
10 Wellington Street, 28th Floor
Gatineau, QC K1A 0H3
Tel.: 819-997-1441
Fax: (819) 953-0279
Email: John.Baird@ec.gc.ca

Raise this issue today with Premier Dalton McGuinty and David Ramsay, Minister of Natural Resources!
Let them know that the killing of cormorants is an archaic, destructive and cruel method of wildlife management that has no scientific or ecological justification.

Dalton McGuinty, Premier
Legislative Building
Queen's Park
Toronto ON M7A 1A1
Tel.: 416-325-1941
Fax: (416) 325-3745
Email: www.premier.gov.on.ca/feedback/feedback.asp

Hon. David Ramsay
Queen's Park, Rm 343, Main Legislative Building
Toronto ON M7A 1A4
Tel .: 416-325-7137
Fax : 416-325-9007
Email: dramsay.mpp@liberal.ola.org

For more information, call Animal Alliance of Canada at 416-462-9541, or visit www.zoocheck.com/cormorant.

On behalf of the cormorants, thank you for speaking out.

For the animals,
Animal Alliance of Canada