advocacy
Photos of the staging area at the Fountain Avenue landfill. (Source: GooseWatch NYC)Another day, another animal in the cross-hairs of the wildlife gestapo. In the wacky world of wildlife preservation, we’ve seen battles rage over swans [/dec-opens-fire-upstate-swans-defying-elected-officials-passed-mute-swan-murder-moratorium/] and cats [/cats-saved/]in the past few weeks, and now concerns
Airports
Hundreds of Canada geese were rounded up in Jamaica Bay for the second year in a row. The captured geese will be euthanized in the name of human air safety. The New York Times is reporting [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/annual-goose-roundup-under-way-in-jamaica-bay/?_r=0] that the controlled
Geese
Captured a Park Slope moment on camera? Send it to editor@bklyner.com or add it to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/], and we’ll post it on the blog.
activism
Source: Brocken Inaglory via Wikimedia CommonsOn July 9, more than 700 Canada Geese [/751-geese-gassed-in-jamaica-bay/] were rounded up and killed at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Instead of dumping the dead geese into landfills, the meat from the birds was donated to food pantries and soup kitchens in New York. Normally,
Geese
photo credit: David Monniaux [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Branta_canadensis_DSC03398.JPG] The Prospect Park geese are safe because there are no [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/again-numbers-are-down-in-annual-goose-roundup/] Prospect Park Geese, says the New York Times. > Two years after the US Department of Agriculture