Humans are the imbalanced ones

Dear editor: Re: The Feb. 9 copy of Westside Weekly. On Page 5, we read an article, “Ag minister willing to consider deer cull.”

On Page 6, “Declining wildlife population focus of Green Party town hall.”

Am I the only one who sees the irony in this, the contradiction, when on the one hand residents want the deer to be culled because they are wandering through backyards nibbling on the shrubbery, and on the other hand the BC Wildlife Federation is worried that the wildlife is going to be “managed down to zero.”

Now, my concern is that the federation is really only interested in healthy numbers of animals so they can go out and hunt them, but I am all for conservation of wild animals and their environment.

We need to realize that humans must share this planet with other species, because our sad attempts at “managing” wildlife in the past have created great imbalances that later turned out to have negative consequences.

Humans are the ones out of balance now. Leave the animals alone. Nicola Newington

West Kelowna