Killing owls to save owls: the US wildlife plan that sparked an 'ethical dilemma'

A government proposal to cull half a million owls, in order to save a related species, has raised complicated questionsIt sounds like a setup for an ecological horror film - to save one species of owl, US wildlife officials want to shoot down half a million of its cousins.The federal government's latest proposal to save the endangered spotted owls has raised complicated questions about the ethics of killing one species to save another, and the role of humans to intervene in the cascading ecological conundrums that they have caused. Continue reading...