Plan moves ahead to wipe out non-native deer population on B.C. island

"If you're going to deal with it, you have to completely eradicate them from the island," said Eric Pelkey, hereditary chief of the Tsawout First Nation and representative of the W̱SÁNEĆ Leadership Council.

I feel this is an extreme position to deal with the European fallow deer on Sidney Island.  I petition to find another solution to this predicament.

If I have to be the voice for the deer, then that is what I am.  The deer could be moved to another provincial location - why must they all be killed in a genocide type of action?

What kind of a world are we living in where we have to take such extreme and callous measures to solve an environmental problem?!   

Surely the First Nations can identify in their ancestral history this type of unfair and lethal exploitation.