May 07, 2021

Andrew Campbell 

The US National Park Service (NPS) officials are planning to invite 12 volunteer shooters to slaughter bison from the North Rim, Arizona of Grand Canyon as scheduled in the coming September and October. The NPS bison-killing program drew 45,040 applicants by May 3 from across the country as lottery contenders. In addition, Native American tribes originated from the indigenous peoples of the Americas are working out on a separate opportunity in the lethal kill pending agreements.

The NPS officials first proposed the bison-killing program in September 2017, blaming the 600 herds are threatening the Park's archaeological and natural resources near the North Rim. They wanted to reduce the number of bison to 200s. Similarly, other national parks, including Rocky Mountain National Park and Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, and Olympic National Park in Washington, have used previously volunteer shooters to reduce some wildlife in their parks.

The Humane Society of the United States, an American nonprofit organization that focuses on animal welfare, always opposes such animal-related cruelties of national scope. The Humane Society has been criticizing the NPS accusation on the bison tramping Grand Canyon as false ecological news. The slaughter seems oddly cruel.

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