Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Dancing with Wolves (in Cohousing)-off topic

[Kevin Wolf (kjwolf]

Ahh the problem with weeds and exotic plants and animals.  Their presence 
kills native plants and animals.  If the exotics were not here, fewer 
native birds would have their nests taken over and their eggs killed, more 
flowers would bloom, more food for native animals would be available and 
fewer native animals would starve to death.  When these exotics are killed, 
another life is saved.  Often times much more than a life is saved. 
Sometimes whole species are saved.  These weeds and exotic animals are not 
killed because they are inconvenient.  They are removed because they harm 
the natural environment.   Just look at the damage feral cats do to bird 
populations.  I vote for maintaining the natural ecosystem and the species 
it supports, and that since this often means removing (and killing) 
exotics, so be it.

Kevin

At 08:24 PM 3/3/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> Liz,
>
> I am rather disappointed in your statement.
>
> Killing creatures because they are not convenient just does not sound
> right to me.
>
> Robert
>
> On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 13:32:31 -0800 Elizabeth Stevenson
> <tamgoddess [at] attbi.com> writes:
> > Actually, if it was a starling, you'd be doing bluebirds a favor by
> > killing
> > it. It is a non-native species to North America, believe it or not!
> >
> >

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