Please Stop the War on Wildlife. Please Stop Point Pelee National Park
In the name of ‘preserving biodiversity’, both Ontario Parks and Parks Canada have initiated a massive killing program of nesting Double-crested Cormorants – a native migratory bird that nests on the Great Lakes.
Since 2000, tens of thousands of cormorants have been killed either through direct shooting of nesting adult birds or through egg oiling, a process of coating eggs with mineral oil to suffocate the embryo inside eliminating an entire generation of young birds.
The Ontario Parks’ program has been successfully challenged through citizen action and is currently being revised.
Point Pelee National Park
Point Pelee National Park remains the only jurisdiction in Ontario that continues to kill Double-crested Cormorants en masse. Last spring alone, Point Pelee National Park shot almost 4000 nesting adult birds and the shooting is scheduled to continue this spring as early as April 2011.
The War on Wildlife
The killing of cormorants is most efficient during the nesting period because the birds display a strong maternal instinct making them reluctant to leave their nests during times of disturbance or threat. Government sharpshooters simply take aim at birds sitting idle on their nests incubating their eggs. Typically, hundreds of birds can be killed within a few hours, and thousands within a few days.
Please help us stop the mass killing of wildlife in our national parks. Learn more:
Unfounded Claims By Parks Canada / Boycott Point Pelee
About Double-crested Cormorants
London Civic Centre - Nature London Meeting March 2011
Aylmer Wildlife Management Centre - March 2011
Migrating Tundra Swans - Aylmer Wildlife Centre
Long Point - March 2011
Long Point - March 2011
Antique Market Toronto Holiday Shoppers
The Cameron Ranch is a private property recently purchased by the Nature Conservancy. It is part of the Carden Alvar Important Bird Area and is located east of Lake Simcoe. Birders partcipated in a bird count on this day - June 2010
Bird Studies Canada 50th Anniversary Dinner with guest speaker Robert
Bateman May 2010
Talking to visitors at Tommy Thompson Park Toronto, also known as the Leslie Street Spit. The largest cormorant colony on the Great Lakes is located here. It is currently protected.
Royal Ontario Museum
Ontario Ornithological Club birding event - Ferry Docks Toronto
Pinery Provincial Park
Pinery Provincial Park
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