Helicopter deer cull kills 84 deer

[Catherine]

Sidney Island off of Vancouver Island BC has been the site of a deer controversy. European fallow deer were introduced for hunting. They don't belong there and they have multiplied and are replacing local wildlife. Parks Canada got the idea to hunt them by helicopter. At the beginning of December they sent marksmen up in a helicopter to shoot the deer.


https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news...ney-island

The shooters are not there on the ground to do something if a deer is only wounded. So some wounded deer would have been left out their suffering. 
They also admit that some native deer would be killed by accident.
Even if they need to find a way to remove the fallow deer, there is something nasty about flying over and shooting from a helicopter.

Just a thought, but we have too many fallow deer. Their numbers are low in their native habitat. Should we catch and return them. We brought them here. Now we want them gone. Don't we have an obligation to look after them properly. Shooting them from a helicopter is a selfish action on our part. Returning them home would be accepting responsibility for them being here in the first place. 

Maybe we need to stop thinking of animals(and plants) as invasive species and see them as displaced species. They didn't displace themselves and they didn't invade.