Dear Editor,
Thank you for the article in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek on page 20 `Wildlife Commission urges against harming wild animals displaced by floods’. Reports from the Mahaica Creek yesterday indicated that ‘hunters’ are using airboats to access high ground refuges where there are stranded wildlife such as deer. There should be no joy in capitalising on the desperate survival actions of wildlife in such flooded conditions and especially when such ‘killings’ (this is not hunting by stalking) are done in plain sight of farmers and their families who are salvaging remnants of their herds of cattle and sheep from their already flooded farms and pastures.
A call for mercy and compassion to be extended by the more fortunate and affluent in our society to the suffering families and impacted livestock and wildlife, would not be misplaced.
Sincerely,
Joseph G Singh
Major General (ret’d)