Pig Control Drives Group Hog Wild Peta Protests The Use Of Snares On Porkers Marauding In Wild Areas

God bless People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

The deeper the group gets into harebrained escapades, the less likely that mainstream Americans will be swayed by its animal-rights nonsense. And when it comes to harebrained, you can count on PETA.

Its latest trips through the looking glass have occurred in Arlington, Va., and Honolulu. PETA which never has provided an acre of earth for any wild animal - has been picketing The Nature Conservancy, one of America’s largest legitimate conservation organizations, over the issue of pigs.

The Nature Conservancy operates 13 refuges and preserves in Hawaii, at least one on every major island, where it tries to protect threatened native plants and wildlife. One of the threats to those things is introduced species, and one of the introduced species is pigs. The pigs once were tame, but have gone wild in more ways than one. And now they threaten the rain forest and some of the birds that inhabit it, both of which evolved in the absence of pigs.

In many places it’s impractical to fence the preserves, so The Nature Conservancy has controlled the pig population with snares. They kill an average of one pig per month. PETA says that’s unfair to pigs. It says The Conservancy should use cage traps or contraceptives, and it’s been showing up at Conservancy headquarters in Arlington and Honolulu to chant slogans, wave signs and flaunt its stupidity.

According to a news wire service, The Conservancy says it uses fences where possible, and fences and hunting control the pigs on some of the islands. It says it uses snares only in a handful of places, where other strategies haven’t worked.

Contraceptives? Despite the chanting and the signs, none is known to work on pigs, The Conservancy says.

Hawaii has 40 percent of this country’s endangered birds, The Conservancy points out. And when a species is lost, it is gone from the planet.