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NEWS: MP challenges mail delivery decision /A3 COMMUNITY: Cycling for hospice care /A5 SPORTS: Pee wee players compete in Oak Bay /A14
OAK BAYNEWS Friday, July 24, 2015
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Cultural celebration Members of the cultural group Rozhanytsia visit Oak Bay Monday (July 20) at Willows Park, entertaining what organizers said was their biggest crowd to date. The visiting group from the Ukraine is sharing their songs and culture across the province. Christine van Reeuwyk /Oak Bay News
Oak Bay funds UWSS pilot to build on cull Deer contraception planned for fall project, subject to permits Christine van Reeuwyk Oak Bay News
Oak Bay will throw some financial support behind the Urban Wildlife Stewardship Society with a grant of $5,000. UWSS came to council Monday night seeking a $10,000 grant for its Deer Plan Oak Bay – a capture-vaccinate-tag-release pilot
project planned for the fall. They also hope to create a scientific deer population inventory and a better understanding of urban deer ecology and population dynamics. “We’re asking you to bring it down to science,” said Kristy Kilpatrick, UWSS vicepresident. “If we bring it down to science, that will mitigate [emotion].” The society formed in the wake of a regional deer management strategy that included a controversial cull of 11 animals in Oak Bay. Members outlined for council the plans to utilize advice and training from its own Scientific Advisory Group, the
provincial veterinarian and field experience of consultant, TerraMar Environmental Research. They’ve secured 25 doses of the immunocontraceptive SpayVac and submitted an application to the province for a permit to treat up to 25 deer. The provincial offering, similarly offered to Oak Bay during its cull, is equipment and technical advice for the society’s project planned for this fall. UWSS plans to use modified Clover traps as Oak Bay did during the culling process. They expect to apply this week for the federal permit to administer SpayVac –
which must be done as a study, as it’s an experimental drug. During Monday’s meeting, Coun. Tara Ney noted that the information council was given in the past, was contraception would also require a cull in order to be effective. It makes sense, both UWSS president Bryan Gates and Kilpatrick told council, to build on the cull already done last fall as part of the regional deer management strategy. PLEASE SEE: Deer contraception, Page A7
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