The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services has a 30-year plan to kill around 470,000 Barred Owls in order to save the Spotted Owl from extinction. Spotted owls are federally protected in the US.
The northern spotted owl was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1990 by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and has been at the center of a contentious debate about logging ...
Plan calls for killing invasive barred owls in the region as early as spring 2025. The plan to kill about 450,000 invasive barred owls in the Pacific Northwest to protect native spotted owls will ...