- Friday, November 20, 2009, 9:52
- Buffalo
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November 20, 2009
The Wall Street Journal
By
Sarah McBride
Island Conservancy Tries Contraception to Cull Herd Popular With Tourists but Tough on Plants
AVALON, Calif. - Conservationist Carlos de la Rosa still likes to see buffalo roaming Southern California's famed Santa Catalina Island.
Just not so many of them.
His employer, the Catalina Island Conservancy, has taken hardcore positions with all kinds of other nonnative animals, including ...
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- Friday, November 20, 2009, 9:43
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November 20, 2009
LA Times
By
Louis Sahagun
The Catalina Island Conservancy has been rounding up the herd so females can get a reversible contraceptive vaccine. The goal: Control the size of the herd to keep it and the environment healthier.
Reporting from Avalon - Half a dozen men with walkie- talkies and cattle prods set out on foot at sunrise Thursday to coax a ...
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- Friday, November 20, 2009, 9:32
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11/19/2009 08:05:58 PM PST
Contra Costa Times
By
Kristin S. Agostoni, Staff Writer
The Catalina Island Conservancy is introducing a contraception plan for its female bison with a vaccine that will control the buffalo population. Bison wait in a holding pens before the vets and scientists can draw DNA samples and give the females the contraceptive vaccine.
In 1924, a film crew moved 14 bison onto ...
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