So - I didn't think I was an animals' rights activist, but this article has me all worked up...
Apparently, California state wildlife officials have issued a permit to exterminate a single beaver for felling nine trees near a bike path near Bakersfield, California. Ok - the beaver is messing up an area developed for human use. I can see how that is frustrating.
My thoughts while reading the first portion of the article were: Why not move the beaver somewhere else? That's what you do with unwanted pests, right? Drive them out to the middle of nowhere and drop them off?
Well - the author of the article was kind enough to answer my unvoiced query:
When asked why officials couldn't just relocate the little vandal, they said that is not an option because the animal’s nature is to stop the flow of water, which could ruin an irrigation canal or destroy more trees at another location.
Correct me if I'm misinterpreting, but doesn't that mean that the beaver is being exterminated for no other reason than because it's a beaver?!
Is this an act of laziness? Of cruelness? I just don't see that killing the beaver is necessary. Arg!
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