As many as 180 deer will be shot and killed on Long Island by federal wildlife specialists in an effort to control the population.
Authorities said they donated about 1,300 pounds of deer meat, or venison, to local food banks after the cull last year.
Animal advocates planned to protest Wednesday outside Caleb Smith preserve in Smithtown, one of the planned cull sites. Wildlife rehabilitator John Di Leonardo, who leads the group Long Island Orchestrating for Nature that planned the protest, told Newsday that surviving deer will multiply rapidly, taking advantage of the new food and territory opened by the cull. "If you’re just killing deer year after year, you’re treating the symptom of the problem, not the problem," he said.
Di Leonardo said he favors deer sterilization or immunocontraception. But Bernd Blossey, a Cornell University professor of natural resources, said regular culling is the only way to reduce Long Island's deer population short of introducing predators like wolves. Earlier this month, the National Park Service announced a similar controversial management plan to reduce the number of deer at Fire Island National Seashore.
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