Yellowstone to kill 1000 wild bisons to check migration into Montana

In order to keep a check on wild bison moving out of the Yellowstone National Park and migrating to Montana during winter, a decision has been taken to kill 1000 animals, mostly calves and females. This year's proposal puts more emphasis on killing females and calves to reduce the population's reproductive rate.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 19 November 2015.

Accordingly, officials of the Park would meet representatives of American Indian tribes, the state and other federal agencies to take a final decision and draw up the plan. This plan would be a continuation of a controversial agreement made in 2000 between Montana and the federal government that was meant to prevent the spread of the disease brucellosis from bison to livestock.
Incidentally, almost 5,000 bison roamed Yellowstone during the summer and thousands of them could be driven into southwestern Montana in case of harsh winters. Hunters, who include members of tribes with treaty rights in the Yellowstone area, are expected to kill more than 300 of the animals this winter.
The park has one of the largest wild bison herds in the world and, since the 1980s, more than 6,300 have been slaughtered, and almost 1,900 killed by hunters.

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