Ducks have got to go

[hlthe2b]

32. I don't doubt that, just as on occasion, introduced snakes are. Notify HI Fish & Wildlife.

I'm sensing far more concern about their inconvenience than the invasive species issue. So, I wonder what would be the attitude toward the neighbor's native species-eating pet cat or dogs--neither of which are native to Hawaii either. If they become big enough nuisances... what then?

Yes, I am sensitive as one who works to save Colorado wildlife against some of the self-entitled newcomers to the area that illegally poison the wild rabbits that enter their non-fenced, unprotected gardens (or bully county commissioners to kill off the very territorial and thus nonmigrating prairie dog colonies a full four miles from the nearest house and on public land) or seek to have raptors limited because of a false concern that they are causing major decreases in the songbird populations. You may have a favored species of wildlife, but that doesn't mean you have the right to decide what lives and dies and where. Science-based decisions using population control is the purview of the state wildlife officials and their academic partners--not inconvenienced home-owners or the generally disgruntled.