If anything, the birds are shot because they’re viewed as competition for food, he said. In 2018, a Ville Platte man said he shot at a whooping crane in Evangeline Parish to flush it away from a crawfish farm.
Interesting article about the poaching of the whooping crane and why they are killed in the first place. I hate to see the killing of these beautiful animals, and why, to save a few crawfish? I guess education is the best hope we have for saving threatened animals and protecting nature. Too bad there is no way to police the entire outdoors. I hope the whooping crane population can hang on long enough to gain a foothold in Louisiana again.....
Read the full story here.....
https://www.nola.com/news/courts/article_2354dde4-eef4-11ea-aff0-eb82f52359ab.html