America intervenes in the war between two owls

The US government has intervened in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now continues to plan to engage in a new war, between two spotted fur and striped fur.

Strix occidentalis caurina has been included in the list of animals to be protected since 1990. Soon after, the White House issued many regulations to limit logging activities in national forests to protect Protect speckled feathers. A series of forest with mottled feathers, with a total area of ​​4.5 million hectares, in Washington State, Oregon and California have turned into forbidden forests. Those decisions are met with fierce opposition from a part of the population. Time magazine once accused spotted feathers of pushing tens of thousands of people into the job and losing their land.

The mottled owl has black eyes, dark feathers with those
white spots on the head and neck, the zebra eggs in the chest. (Photo: AP)

Despite government efforts, the number of spotted feathers continues to decline by 40% in the past 25 years, the AP said.

Conservationists affirm the narrowing of the forest and the competition of striped fur is the main cause of the decline in the number of spotted feathers. With body size larger than spotted fur, striped fur takes the upper hand in territorial competition with rivals.

To prevent the danger of extinction of the spotted owl, on February 28, the US government announced a series of new measures in a draft, such as allowing companies to cut down trees to prevent the risk of forest fires and give allowing people to shoot striped fur to reduce competitive pressure on spotted fur.

Striped fur has also brown and striped fur on the chest, but no spots. Body length
can be striped fur from 40 to 63cm, and weight from 500 to more than 1,000g. (Photo: pixdaus.com)

US officials describe the draft as a science-based measure to restore the diversity of the wild environment, while generating income and employment for communities within the three contiguous states. forests - including Washington, Oregon and California - from logging.

This is not the first time the US federal government has allowed killing an animal to help another species. In recent years Washington has allowed people to kill sea lions because they eat too much salmon in the Columbia River. The US Department of Agriculture kills several thousand wildlife every year to protect cattle. Most of the people killed are predators - like coyotes and bears.

Officials admit the idea of ​​killing striped fur to save the mottled owl could lead to moral dilemma. But they said that a private soil test showed that shooting down the striped fur brings many encouraging results. The mottled feather has returned to areas where they once lived after the number of striped feathers dropped.

The conservationists expressed concern after studying the government draft. Steve Holmer, president of the American Bird Conservation Foundation, said he was excited because the government was cautious in deciding to kill striped fur, but disapproved of government approval for logging. According to Holmer, the government should have conducted a number of studies to see if logging is beneficial to wildlife.