The Wildlife Society ran an interesting article, on raccoon's damage to endangered birds and turtles. It is a summary of a video by a "Science Café" talk, hosted by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. This video shows an in depth study of raccoon population dynamics, and even shows the damage they cause to certain species such as the piping glover and certain endangered sea turtles.
Unlike some "Animal welfare" groups or Animal Rights SJWs, this video's speaker talks about the importance of sound management. Raccons are a very interesting species, and the video talks about different raccoon groups and their locations in order to asses their diets and other factors determining behavior and reproductive success. They even talked about some obese raccoons that live near the dumpsters.
Anti trappers like to lie, and exagerrate the rare occasions unfortunate things happen. In the video they toss around different management ideas such as putting them down and contraceptives. The biologist was asked were the raccoons go when they remove them and she said, "raccoon heaven." My personal solution would be to hire a couple of experienced trappers during fur season.
I encourage you all to watch this video or at least the article. The Wildlife Society is a great alternative to the Humane SCAM Society.
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