Province plans to capture, kill and test of hundreds of animals in cities of Cranbrook and Kimberley as it seeks to stem the spread of chronic wasting disease
The province is backing the capture, killing and testing of hundreds of urban deer across two B.C. municipalities. Their goal: find out if chronic wasting disease has spread into the city.
Those prions pass into the environment through the urine or feces of infected animals, and once there, they can survive for decades, spreading the brain disease among deer, elk, moose and caribou. “We’ve kind of got a circle around Cranbrook,” said Zeman. “We could be sitting on a major outbreak and not know. The trick now is to find out.”
The ministry spokesperson said the deer will be sedated with darts and then killed in a controlled setting. “It’s been very controversial,” said Zeman. “There are people who are very connected with the deer that live in their yard. The flip side to that is, in those cities, they’re managing deer with car bumpers — running them over.”
“There’s not really a lot of scientific evidence around scale, the number of removals that is effective,” she said. “But you’re definitely dealing in the hundreds.”
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