Point Pelee National Park closing to control deer population | 24CA News
Parks Canada is closing Point Pelee National Park for 16 days in January to manage the park’s deer inhabitants, which the company says is simply too excessive.
In a press launch, Parks Canada stated the park will probably be closed from Jan. 5 to twenty to conduct the exercise in partnership with Caldwell First Nation. Parks Canada stated the park will re-open on Jan. 21.
“Parks Canada is responsible for maintaining and restoring ecological health in national parks,” the discharge stated. “A high population (hyperabundance) of white-tailed deer in Point Pelee National Park is a serious threat to forest and savannah health and the species that depend on these precious habitats.”
The deer discount exercise is a part of the Hyperabundant Deer Management Program, in response to Parks Canada, which incorporates monitoring the ecosystem and deer inhabitants, defending species in danger and decreasing the inhabitants of the white-tailed deer to “sustainable levels based on the park’s goals to achieve ecological integrity.”
Parks Canada stated the deer at Point Pelee National Park are consuming and damaging native crops sooner than they will develop again and are threatening the well being of the regional forest, which is dwelling to quite a few species in danger.
“Deer are also jeopardizing efforts to restore the Lake Erie Sand Spit Savannah, a globally rare ecosystem that supports 25 per cent of the species at risk in the park, including the Five-lined Skink,” the Parks Canada launch stated.
Parks Canada stated Point Pelee National Park “would ideally support 24 to 32 deer. It is estimated that the current deer herd population is two times higher than this target.”
