Leave baby animals alone: hunting and angling group
Posted May 27, 2010 02:54:11 PM.
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The group representing anglers and hunters in the province is asking people to leave baby animals alone.
Tony Rodgers of the Federation of Anglers and Hunters says people often discover fawns, for example, by themselves and think the mom has abandoned them.
“The mother’s gone off either to eat or has led a predator away from her fawn,” says Rodgers.
He says fawns have no scent and so they can hide quite nicely.
“But if people are picking them up that takes that whole scenario and actually reverses it,” says Rodgers.
Hope Swinemar of Hope for Wildlife sees the results when people take the animals.
“A big part of what we do is education,” says Swinemar. “On a nice sunny weekend it’s not unusual to get over 100 or 150 phone calls.”
And she knows people mean well but the best thing to do is leave them. Then maybe check a day later to see if they’re distressed and then take action or call natural resources.
