The federal government plans to kill half a million West Coast owls
The federal government has proposed a plan to shoot 500,000 barred owls to save another owl species that inhabits California. Foes say it's a reckless plan.
www.latimes.com
Lets keep thing as non political as possible.
Not sure if natural extinction is a real term. But I can't think of anything else that sound accurate. Basically because one specie of owl is pushing another specie to extinction. Is it our job to stop it? Especially if we are not the cause of it.
Basically the BARRED owls diet is very adaptable, they can eat a lot of different things and are bigger. While the SPOTTED owls diet is very particular, they are picky eater and are smaller. So the barred owls are slowly pushing the spotted owls out of their habitants and if the situation is left unchecked, the spotted owls face extinction.
Honestly, I'm not even a little sad for the spotted owls. Isn't this what nature and evolution is all about? Are we actually going AGAINST nature and the order of things if we try to help the spotted owls?
This is not similar to other situations where we are at fault, like we introduced plants/animal not native to the area and are responsible for the outcome.
So me personally, I say let nature be, and if the spotted owls are going to be extinct in a few decades, that's evolution. But I'm opening to changing my mind if you have good arguments.