A “crow and sparkle The shooting event ”which has been the subject of numerous complaints to the province is legal and can go ahead as planned, natural resources journalists, Ian Bushie said on Wednesday.
The event, scheduled for Saturday, is organized by Woodlands & District Wildlife Association, a club in Interlake. A poster announcing the two shooting teams can register at $ 50, and the event will be followed with a barbecue dinner. The poster also indicates that prices will be given to the two best teams.
This is not the first time that the association has organized a shoot of Crow and Magpie, President Darrell Hueging told Global News, but this is the first time that the event has been declining. Hueging says he received “a lot of hatred” in the form of telephone calls and comments on social networks.
“I had a few conversations with some people who simply did not have an understanding of what this event was,” said Hueging. “He has reached … different crowds and different people, and it’s just a bit exploded from there.”
Hueging says that the objective of the event is to control the population of Corbeau and Mougpie for farmers in the region, while bringing together members of the community.
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“They are both a threat (for) livestock, especially now in the spring when neonistic calves are born and are the most vulnerable … Picked in soft tissues, and sometimes they are sometimes potentially fatal injuries,” he said.
Hueging says that only a “handful” of birds will be harvested during the day. He adds that this is not an event of “sport shooting”, but Brittany Semeniuk with the organization of defense of animals of the animal organization justice does not agree.
“Essentially, it is a killing competition where participants are encouraged to hunt and kill so many crows and pies in a specific area as much as possible,” she said.
“It’s a killing competition and nothing more.”
Animal Justice wrote a letter to the veterinary chief of Manitoba denounced the event, saying that it violates the law on the protection of animals in the province by causing injuries or serious damage to animals.
The province has received a number of other correspondence on the event, said Minister Bushie.
“This is done on private property, and crows and magpies are not protected,” he said.
Corbeals and pies belong to the Corvid family, a group of very intelligent birds capable of using tools. Ravens also belong to this group, but unlike crows and molds, they are protected by the province’s Wildlife Act.
The office of Minister Bushie advised Global News Shooting Birds is not an effective method of fighting pests, but the association’s event is legal.
“I come from a community that is hunters, for example, and we would not do it in this way,” said Bushie, “but to everyone when he arrives for time. They do not violate the law in any way.”
He added that conservation agents were informed of the shooting and will be done in the region on Saturday.
The project of the Winnipeg animal defense group, Artemis, told Global News that he intended to organize a protest near the entrance to the property on Friday evening at the opening of the registration.
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