In both cases, the animals were exhausted from thrashing around to get out of the netting and could have died a slow, painful death, said Wendy Ord
In an ironic twist leading up to the final phase of Parks Canada’s plan to shoot all the fallow deer on Sidney Island, local property owners are saving some of the animals — and putting themselves in harm’s way to do it.It’s a tactic by Parks Canada to create killing zones for Phase 2 of the plan to rid Sidney Island of the invasive species.
Ord, her husband, Glen Samuel, and two other men spent a tense 20 minutes on Sunday cutting away the netting to rescue one deer. By the time they found the animal, about an hour after it was reported, it was severely traumatized and weak.A similar rescue was done on Saturday by two other Sidney Island property owners.
It said Parks Canada sought guidance from animal-welfare authorities, including the Parks Canada Animal Care Committee, BC SPCA and the provincial wildlife veterinarian, to “take all reasonable steps” to mitigate risks to wildlife during the eradication operation.Parks Canada said it’s investigating the latest entanglement incidents.
In the initial phase of the deer kill over 11 days last December, U.S.- and New Zealand-based sharpshooters killed the animals from a helicopter during the day and on the ground at night. She said there are some metal stakes to support the netting in open areas, but most of the netting is attached to trees with “ratchet straps.”
The island is closed as of Nov. 1 on the national park side, but the private land will remain open during the second phase, which is expected to last until late April, while hunters round up and kill the deer.
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