Thursday, January 10, 2019

Playing God

Does this make any sense to you?

Oregon wildlife officials have started killing California sea lions that threaten a fragile and unique type of trout in the Willamette River, a body of water that’s miles inland from the coastal areas where the massive carnivorous aquatic mammals usually congregate to feed.

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife obtained a federal permit in November to kill up to 93 California sea lions annually below Willamette Falls south of Portland, Oregon, to protect the winter run of the fish that begin life as rainbow trout but become steelhead when they travel to the ocean.

You can read the rest @
https://apnews.com/7e0991fa9f7f404e904bb271999b6e59

This planet's ecosystem apparently did quite well for itself until humans came along. Now we decide what lives and what dies. I don't think we're intelligent enough to be making such decisions. Do you?

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