Sign WildCare's Petition to Revoke the Sharpshooting Permit

Sign WildCare's Petition to Revoke the Sharpshooting Permit

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<a href="http://www.wildcarebayarea.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=2140&amp;ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS">http://www.wildcarebayarea.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=2140&amp;ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS</a><br /><br />Sign WildCare's Petition to Revoke the Sharpshooting Permit
<p><strong>The Bad News</strong>:<br />The Homeowners Association at Rossmoor voted 3 to 2 to go forward with the use of the sharpshooting permit to kill 50 Acorn Woodpeckers!</p>
<p><strong>The Good News:<br /></strong>The shooting has not yet been carried out and WildCare is lobbying Fish and Wildlife to revoke the permit!</p>
<p>Sign our new petition below&nbsp;directed at&nbsp;the Fish and Wildlife Service and also to California Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher's office. We may have time to save the woodpeckers!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.change.org/PageServer?pagename=TakeAction_Rossmoor_Woodpeckers">Click to read more about the Rossmoor woodpeckers and to learn <strong>humane methods for deterring them</strong></a> (will open in a new window).</p>
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&nbsp; Please Revoke the Permit to Shoot&nbsp;Fifty&nbsp;Acorn &nbsp;Woodpeckers at Rossmoor!&nbsp;
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<p>I am writing to respectfully ask you to revoke the depredation permit granted to the Rossmoor senior adult community Homeowners Association to shoot&nbsp;fifty Acorn Woodpeckers in a wild colony that has damaged buildings in the Rossmoor complex.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Experts in woodpecker biology have&nbsp;demonstrated that&nbsp;this culling will not solve the Rossmoor's woodpecker problem and will only result in the needless deaths of individual birds and inhumane stress on the colony.</p>
<p>I&nbsp;urge the Department of Fish and Wildlife to&nbsp;revoke this&nbsp;permit and allow&nbsp;a <strong>long term solution that is both non-lethal</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>humane to be found.&nbsp;</strong>Non-lethal methods of&nbsp;deterrence have not been properly instituted and the advice of experts has been ignored in this case. The problems&nbsp;arose because of habitat destruction and poor environmental planning.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I know that revoking a depredation permit is a serious step, but in this case wildlife experts believe&nbsp;it to be justified. Scientific evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that shooting these birds will not end the damage done to the community's buildings. Only long-term deterrents and new habitat for the birds will eliminate the problem for which the permit has been issued.</p>
<p>Please&nbsp;revoke the permit and require that the Rossmoor Homeowners Association&nbsp;allow wildlife experts to assist&nbsp;them in humanely preventing further damage to&nbsp;their buildings.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wildcarebayarea.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=2140&amp;ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS">http://www.wildcarebayarea.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=2140&amp;ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS</a></p>

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