Voice Your Opposition to Slaughter of 11,000 Cormorants
Action Alert from All-Creatures.org

FROM

Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF)
June 2015

ACTION

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has a devastating plan to slaughter nearly 11,000 double-crested cormorants on East Sand Island, at the mouth of the Columbia River. The birds are "blamed" for salmon declines. While ALDF fights the lethal management in court, we need your help to tell the federal agencies, loud and clear, that the slaughter of these native birds must be halted.

 cormorant

Can you make a call to the Army Corps and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service?

Please be polite (remember the people answering the phones are not the people making the decisions) but let them know what you think — keep the message short and strong!

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
(503) 808-4510

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(503) 231-6120
or
1-800-344-9453 (press 0 to speak to a person)

INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ devastating plan to slaughter nearly 11,000 double-crested cormorants on East Sand Island, at the mouth of the Columbia RiverLast month, ALDF joined with the Audubon Society of Portland, the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of Animals, and the Wildlife Center of the North Coast in a lawsuit aimed at stopping the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ devastating plan to slaughter nearly 11,000 double-crested cormorants on East Sand Island, at the mouth of the Columbia River. The so-called lethal “management plan” – which calls for killing more than half of the Island’s cormorants, representing 15% of the entire population west of the Rockies – is an ill-advised attempt to stop salmon population declines that are in fact caused by the Corps’ own refusal to increase river flows by modifying their dam operations.

Although there is no scientific evidence that the Corps’ plan will stop the salmon population decline, the agencies have already begun the massacre, shooting 125 adult birds and destroying over 1,700 nests so far, all during the nesting season, when adults are tending to their young.

For more information on the fight to save the cormorants, including more opportunities to voice your opposition to the senseless slaughter of wild birds, please visit the Audubon Society of Portland’s webpage on East Sand Island.

Please share this request with your family, friends, and colleagues who care about animals!


Thank you for everything you do for animals!


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