Stop Killing Canada Geese Families in Loring Park
In July a company called Canada Goose Management, hired by the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board (MPRB), captured two beloved Canada goose families who lived in Loring Park in Minneapolis. The company workers herded the terrified geese with fencing, grabbed them, and put them into cages. The adult geese stayed by their flightless goslings in an attempt to protect them. The workers then put the caged geese into the back of a truck and drove them to a poultry processing plant where they were sent to a slaughter line, the adults to become human food supposedly destined for a food shelf and the goslings to be rendered into animal feed.
For this ridiculous and inhumane roundup, Canada Goose Management earned $250 for a park population survey and $1,600 for site-wide removal ($23 per adult and $13 per young). The MRPB allows this company, which profits from the capture and slaughter of animals, to decide how many and what birds to kill.
There was no goose overpopulation problem; only two goose families lived in the park. The MPRB management plan allows one nesting pair per pond, so its own guidelines were not followed. Please sign a petition asking the MRPB to end their contract with Canada Goose Management and adopt the petition's recommendations for humane wildlife management. Many thanks to Kay for pulling this petition together after conversations with ARC about this very sad issue.