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                        style="FONT-SIZE: 30px">Hundreds of Thousands of Owls 
                        Are About to Be Slaughtered by the U.S. 
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                        <P style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 16px">To save the 
                        northern spotted owl, the U.S. government is planning 
                        to... <B>kill nearly 500,000 <I>other</I> owls?</B> This 
                        makes no sense at all!<BR><BR>Barred owls are beautiful, 
                        intelligent, and fascinating creatures. Yet the U.S. 
                        government is blaming them  for massive population 
                        declines with northern spotted owls. <A 
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                        href="https://www.care2.com/go/z/e/A0ZwU/zzha/DCXRB" 
                        rel=noopener target=_blank><B>Its solution to the 
                        looming extinction crisis for northern spotted owls is 
                        to slaughter innocent barred owls, including in 
                        protected areas like national parks.</B></A><BR><BR>This 
                        ridiculous and cruel plan won't address the root 
                        problems at all. <B>Research shows that the true threats 
                        to owl populations are primarily from years and years of 
                        industrial logging.</B> This human activity has 
                        decimated birds' habitat and intensely constrained the 
                        resources they need to survive. <B 
                        style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-FAMILY: inherit">Instead 
                        of taking accountability for humans' role in this 
                        extinction risk, the government is scapegoating another 
                        wildlife species.</B></P>
                        <P style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 16px"><BR>As if this 
                        culling program wasn't already bad enough, it's also 
                        wildly expensive. Killing nearly a half a million barred 
                        owls will cost over $1 billion dollars of taxpayer 
                        money, or roughly $3,000 per owl killed.<BR><BR>This 
                        plan sets a dangerous precedent. If allowed to move 
                        forward, this would mark the largest bird cull in U.S. 
                        history. Slaughtering some animals to allegedly help 
                        others is not conservation.<BR><BR><B>Authorities should 
                        take seriously the <I>actual</I> risks posed to the 
                        northern spotted owl and protect it from extinction.</B> 
                        There are much more effective, humane, and inexpensive 
                        ways to actually do that. <B><A 
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                        href="https://www.care2.com/go/z/e/A0ZwU/zzha/DCXRB" 
                        rel=noopener target=_blank>It's time for the U.S. Fish 
                        and Wildlife Service to abandon this horrendous plan. 
                        Sign the petition now if you agree!</A></B></P>
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                        government is scapegoating an owl species and planning 
                        to kill 500,000 of them. All of this is to avoid humans 
                        taking accountability for causing habitat destruction. 
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