Members of the Board of Commissioners in Ocean Isle Seaside, North Carolina, lately voted to spend taxpayer {dollars} to rent a trapper to take away foxes in a misguided try to guard sea turtle nests. Shockingly, board members selected to permit the foxes trapped throughout this initiative to be transported to fox pens. Fox penning is a blood sport, during which trapped foxes are dumped into fenced enclosures the place packs of canines are then launched. The terrified, disoriented foxes are chased to the purpose of exhaustion, cornered, and sometimes torn to shreds. Survivors endure this horror repeatedly throughout these vile occasions, which might final for days.
A video of the board’s dialogue (starting at timestamp 1:36:00) exhibits that members voted to allocate $2,500 of city funds for this appalling undertaking, although they admitted that they’d no thought what number of foxes reside on the island, what areas the foxes frequent, and even what number of sea turtle nests are disturbed by foxes every year. Board members are heard decrying the foxes’ purportedly emboldened conduct whereas additionally mentioning that residents have been feeding the animals—an apparent reason for fox encounters! And there’s been no public survey to find out whether or not residents are even involved about foxes. In brief, it seems that the board voted to sentence these animals to a harrowing loss of life with out understanding something about their inhabitants dynamics. Spoiler alert: Eradicating particular person foxes received’t scale back the inhabitants, as a result of the remaining animals will breed at an accelerated fee.
PETA contacted the Ocean Isle Seaside board members, urging them to rethink, however our pleas have been met with silence. Now it’s your flip! Please take a second to e-mail the board and urge it to scrap the plan to lure foxes. Ask it to focus as a substitute on nest-protection measures which are efficient and don’t hurt animals, resembling banning single-use plastic baggage and dealing to cut back gentle air pollution (synthetic gentle that confuses child sea turtles as they try to achieve the ocean) on seashores. Then please share this alert with all of your contacts.
Please ship well mannered feedback to the Ocean Isle Seaside Board of Commissioners :
Mayor Debbie Smith
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Mayor Professional-Tem Dean Walters
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Commissioner Betty Williamson
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Commissioner R. Wayne Rowell
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Commissioner David Inexperienced
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Commissioner Tom Athey
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