Whether humans need to hunt animals for food, exterminate a pest, or reduce competition for resources, managing populations involves providing nourishment, or neutering to prevent reproduction, culling individuals or the use of pesticides.
Wildlife contraception is the act of preventing reproduction in the wild, which subsequently decreases populations.
Spaying – removing the ovaries and uterus of a female animal – medical term = ovariohysterectomy.
Various humans activities (e.g. hunting, farming, fishing, industrialization, and urbanization) all impact various animal populations.
In Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, the parish performed mass euthanasia on the entire animal shelter population, including 54 cats and 118 dogs that were put to death due to a widespread disease outbreak that spread among the animals.
GonaCon, which was developed by the US Department of Agriculture, encourages the production of antibodies in the sex drive hormones.
This type of method is usually monitored in order to ensure no ethical or public concerns arise.
Just like the lethal trapping method, this tactic also needs to be regularly monitored to ensure no ethical concerns arise, as well as reduce animal distress.
Water spray is popular in urban and agricultural areas as it uses sprinklers to emit surfactants.
To ensure this control method is humane, WSPA states that it must be painless, achieve rapid unconsciousness followed by death, minimize animal fear and distress, and be reliable and irreversible.
[11] Several efforts have been made to control the population of ticks, which act as vectors of a number of diseases and therefore pose a risk to humans.