Coyote cull in Vancouver park

[Catherine]

Stanley Park in Vancouver has seen an increase in the number of coyotes and in the number of coyote attacks against humans. There have been 45 attacks and some of the people were children. So yes, there is a problem. The cause of the problem of course is people feeding the coyotes.
The Vancouver Park Board came up with the expected solution. They plan to cull 35 coyotes. The park has been fenced off and the coyotes will be trapped and killed.
The plan is to kill all the coyotes, not the few aggressive ones. There is no plan to stop the human side of the problem, the feeding of wildlife.  

https://globalnews.ca/news/8173317/activ...-to-begin/


https://www.citynews1130.com/2021/09/07/...nley-park/

This article has a video that explains very well why a cull is not the answer.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/stanley-...l-petition

Culls never work. They actually make things worse. Harmless coyotes will die for no reason. The coyote population could end up higher. The humans will keep feeding the animals and the problem will get worse. The increase in skunks, raccoons and foxes could create other worse problems. 
They are deliberately destabilizing an ecosystem. Who knows what will happen.

All that being said, culls are brutal and they don't say much about us as a species. An animal bothers us and we wipe out all members of the species in the area. 
We don't look so good if you look at it that way. Of course we have been known to do that with other humans too.
Maybe we should remove the humans from the park. All the other species were getting along.

[Catherine]

It seems that after a week of culling coyotes, they have only caught 4 animals.
Could it be that the problem was exaggerated. They were going to cull 35 coyotes because they thought there were 35 coyotes in the park attacking people.
There may be more than the 4 they caught, but clearly there are not 35.


https://bc.ctvnews.ca/after-first-week-o...-1.5585266

I wonder if some of the coyote encounters were not actually coyotes. Some people were attacked and injured and clearly there were coyotes involved. 
Many of the reports probably had some other explanation. The coyotes got a bad deal here.

[Catherine]

The park is reopened and they really only caught 4 coyotes. They have put in animal proof garbage cans and they are trying to educate people about not feeding coyotes.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8210299/stanl...s-coyotes/

Odd how they thought there were 35 dangerous coyotes and in the end they only found 4. That is still four coyotes that shouldn't have died.
All of this was the fault of humans feeding the coyotes and not knowing how to interact with them. Unless they want to have this happen again, they need to
teach people how to act around the animals in the park. It needs to be enforced. There is no reason why animals and humans can't use the same space. We just have to be willing to share.