Is Ducks Unlimited concerned about how the non-hunting public might view predator control?
Any wildlife management plan needs to consider how public opinion might affect its success. The majority of North Americans would seriously question the ethics of broad-scale predator control as a means to better hunting. Predator control kills fur-bearing animals during the spring and summer, when their pelts have no value and when the young furbearers are still dependent on their parents for survival. As a result, trapped adults are discarded and wasted and the young are abandoned to starve.
