SAVE PROSPECT PARK'S GEESE!!!!

The Canada goose population in Prospect Park is a relatively recent phenomenon, only noticeable numbers in the last 10-15 years at most. Tenty-five years ago there were few geese & those numbers declined when the swans moved in - swans are very territorial. The real problem has been the developement of two goose populations, those that migrate & those that don't. The non-migratory geese make up most of those in PP where they exist in a concentration unknown in rural areas. They were not a part of the park originally & of course Propect Lake is man-made, not natural. So any argument that they were here before human brings is specious at best.

Because the migratory & non-migratory subsets cannot easily be distinguished, both groups are considered one species under the international migratory wild fowl agreements. Thus only the federal government has jurisdiction over them.

.. but they're just birds, and if the numbers of them make it hazardous, doesn't it make sense to ..decrease the numbers?

Everyone is able to believe what they want.

However, it seems to government has the authority to put their beliefs into action, and kill those geese.

...when they believe a human poses a risk to others, they often kill the human too. Don't like it?

Most of us have even lower standards than the government: We will use our money to have an animal killed solely to eat it for dinner, despite having lots of alternatives.

Hey, at least we are polite. If we wanted to, we could point out how silly the "hands around the lake" event is, by eating a chicken sandwich as we attended it.

But, instead, most of us will do something else on March 26th.

As it happens, I agee with you.