*[Enwl-eng] Losing Good Neighbors

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It’s too easy to get rid of those we don’t understand.

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                                Losing Good Neighbors

                                FOR THE SAFETY of all residents and due to 
an increase in “disturbing coyote encounters,” the animals would have to be 
trapped and removed, an email from my apartment complex announced last June. 
Some of my neighbors had been sending emails detailing alarming encounters 
with the canids. When I heard howling or yipping at night, on the other 
hand, I opened my windows and listened.


                                Access to flora and fauna was one of the 
reasons I chose this apartment, which sits on a large parcel of land next to 
a golf course and the Willamette River. Migrating geese rest on the 
neighboring rooftop, bald eagles perch in the Douglas fir trees, and, yes, 
coyotes roam the grounds. As dense human neighborhoods sprawl closer to 
wildlife, this type of human-nonhuman crossover in urban areas is becoming 
more prevalent. But this can be dangerous when we humans do nothing to 
understand the wildlife and expect animals to play by our rules.


                                Earth Island’s Project Coyote estimates that 
half a million coyotes are killed every year in the United States, but this 
could be an undercount. In states like Oregon, private landowners who deem a 
coyote on their property to be a “nuisance animal” can trap and remove them 
at any time, without a permit or the need to report it to local agencies. 
“Remove” is a euphemism: These “removed” animals aren’t let out somewhere 
else to frolic and live out their lives. They are killed.


                                In her latest column, Tove Danovich writes 
about how many people want to move into the so-called Wildland-Urban 
Interface, where they can live close to nature, yet they don’t want to learn 
how to live with their wild neighbors.


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      From: Editors, Earth Island Journal <editor at earthisland.org>
      Date: сб, 3 мая 2025 г., 2:45
      Subject: Losing Good Neighbors



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