Belleville has battled for years to resolve it’s pesky beaver problem and its even more pesky public problem sine there are more and more people in the area who co not approve of killing animals to solve problems. Our friend Doug has worked heroically to change their minds and they staunchly defending their ignorance.
Beaver trapping will continue to prevent flooding
Belleville city council has rejected a call
by Quinte Field Naturalists to eliminate trapping and euthanization of nuisance animals threatening infrastructure and homes in the city limits.
Council agreed to receive an annual report on animal trapping Monday from Joe Reid, general manager of Transportation and Operations, which recommended a 2019 policy that allows trapping of nuisance animals continue to be carried out only when it is unavoidable by city staff.
“The city is committed to having high standards of animal welfare within its municipal boundaries, including the humane treatment of wildlife; while respecting its statutory duty to protect residents, municipal infrastructure, and private property when culverts are being blocked or damaged,” Reid informed city council in his report.
Coun. Chris Malette, chair of the city’s Green Task Force, said it was unfortunate that trapping must be conducted in areas where culverts are blocked, for example, by beavers but lauded Reid for moving to have his staff plan on undertaking a BeaverCorps Professional Training Program from the Beaver Institute in 2024.
Yes of course we realize this didn’t solve the problem last time but we DEMAND the right to do it again anyway, We are the ones in charge and if we want to fail publicly over and over again you can’t stop us!
Malette said two of the devices are in place now in the city at present.
“Unfortunately for the folks at Quinte Field Naturalists, we can’t support their request to remove trapping from our policy, we just feel that it would just tie the hands of staff. We are not prepared to do that,” he said.
Reid told council, “our staff do make every effort possible to safeguard the co-existence within our community. Our staff do have a lot of efforts around putting up fencing around trees allowing them [animals] to do their thing.”
We want our
We want our
We want our right to trappppppp
