Suit Filed Over Putting Pheasants at Seashore
Wildlife advocates sued the National Park Service to prevent the agency from stocking the Cape Cod National Seashore with pheasants for a six-week hunting season this fall.
The Park Service is violating its own policy that prohibits the release of nonnative and exotic wildlife into the reservation, according to the lawsuit.
The Asian pheasants are farm raised, tame and have little chance of survival in the wild, said the Fund for Animals, the Humane Society of the United States, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and several Cape Cod residents.
Pheasants that aren’t shot by hunters are hit by vehicles or starve to death, the plaintiffs argue.
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