The days may be numbered for the European fallow deer that have grazed the landscape bare and destroyed traditional ecosystems on Sidney Island for more than a half century. The days may be numbered ...

VICTORIA — Next week’s planned deer cull on Sidney Island has been shelved after animals became tangled and trapped in netting installed to herd them into areas where they would be killed. Parks ...

Parks Canada, First Nations and property owners started planning the eradication of European fallow deer on Sidney Island last year as part of an effort to restore native plants. TIMES COLONIST A plan ...

2:00 Sidney Island residents aghast as 6 deer caught in temporary netting Parks Canada has hit pause on the second phase of a controversial program to eradicate invasive deer from a small Gulf Island ...

Animal rights advocates and some residents of a small B.C. gulf island gathered Friday to protest a plan to clear the island of deer. Residents of Sidney Island voted narrowly in February to support a ...

VICTORIA, British Columbia, April 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On a small Island off the coast of Vancouver Island, Parks Canada is seeking to once again hold an unjustifiable and inhumane eradication ...

Parks Canada is going ahead with a mass roundup and kill of European ­fallow deer on Sidney Island after property owners on the island narrowly approved it. Starting in the late fall, a contracted ...

A Sidney Island property owner says a helicopter was in the air Thursday night to begin aerial shooting of fallow deer on the island. Carla Purves said there was “a flurry of activity” starting at ...

The killing of deer on Sidney Island will begin on Dec. 1, when sharpshooters will start picking the animals off from a helicopter, by land and from boats. The cull, planned by Parks Canada and ...

TORONTO, Nov. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Animal Alliance of Canada and the Animal Protection Party of Canada commends the residents of Sidney Island, British Columbia for achieving a pause of Parks ...

SISȻENEM, also known as Halibut Island, is a 9.67-acre island off the east coast of Sidney Island near Victoria. (Land Conservancy of B.C. - image credit) The Land Conservancy of British Columbia and ...