PiCAS INTERNATIONAL

Wellington City Council in New Zealand has recently announced that it intends to slaughter an undisclosed number of pigeons in Wellington’s Midland Park in an effort to control numbers.  Incredibly, the Council has even suggested that it will poison the pigeons.  Other control options suggested by the Council  include shooting.

Although the extensive use of poisons, such as Avitrol, in countries like the USA comes as no surprise, for a New Zealand City Council to even consider the use of dangerous and indiscriminate poison in an effort to reduce pigeon numbers in a public park is almost unbelievable.  All poisons are indiscriminate and not only effect the target species but all types of wildlife in the area, with protected birds such as hawks, falcons and songbirds, as well as many animal species, falling victim to the poison.  All will die a long and agonising death.

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