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Message: <blockquote data-quote="birdrousta" data-source="post: 3370546" data-attributes="member: 129957">I too hope folks can see the post as a pointer to a source of information for those who want it, rather than prescriptive.  In the habitats I've spent time in, feral cats and feral pigs are notable problems for a lot of species.  Unfortunately, unless the territory under consideration is quite literally an island, exterminating ferals once they're already feral is a losing proposition, as the reservoir of new individuals is so huge and in the case of cats so many "owners" are happy to have cats which spend time as pets and time with ferals.  Even on an island under Federal rather than State jurisdiction and with little input from the "save the animals" people, the work required to address pigs is breathtaking.  Heard some but not all of a Radiolab broadcast this last weekend that spent some time looking at Darwin's Finches in the Galapagos, and some time looking at tortoises and a goat eradication project to protect the tortoises' habitat.  More on that vermin eradication program in the Galapagos is here<a href="http://www.galapagos.org/conservation/conservation/project-areas/ecosystem-restoration/project-isabela/" target="_blank">http://www.galapagos.org/conservation/conservation/project-areas/ecosystem-restoration/project-isabela/</a>With all that said - I respect people who take their own ethics into consideration as they choose what to buy.  I make choices along those lines some but not all of the time, and know I'm not making perfect choices.  I know there are plenty of folks who prefer not to buy binoculars made in China, for example, in part for reasons of quality and in part for reasons of ethics and/or politics.  I'm not going to tell someone looking at sourcing of gear for those reasons not to do so.  This situation seems parallel.</blockquote>

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