City to develop wildlife strategy
Posted Mar 2, 2010 By Sheena Bolton
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Tweet ThisEMC News – Ottawa city council decided last week to begin the work of developing a wildlife strategy, designed to deal with the habituated wildlife appearing throughout the city.
In the near future a meeting will be held between the agriculture and rural affairs committee and the planning and environment committee to develop a wildlife strategy for all wildlife in Ottawa.
Donnna DuBreuil, president of the Ottawa Carleton Wildlife Centre, said she is pleased the city is creating a wildlife strategy. She said she feels the policy should have been in place for a long time. Last Tuesday Ms. DuBreuil and a group of supporters attended a meeting of the city’s planning and environment committee to stress their support for a strategy. Ms. DuBreuil was part of the original group of residents and experts who brought the concept of a wildlife strategy to the community and protective services on Feb. 4.
“If you look at some of the cities across the United States, they have education programs to cohabitate,” said Ms. DuBreuil. “We’ve had coyotes on the greenbelt and what’s happening is we now seeing them in communities like Greenboro because we are continually expanding into natural areas."
For the full story, see the March 5 edition of the EMC.
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