Relocating Wild Animals

Reader Contribution by Vicki Mattern
Published on February 19, 2014
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Do wild animals that are trapped and released in new locations manage to survive?

Though critters roaming your yard can be a nuisance, controlling wild animals by live-trapping and releasing them is not recommended by most wildlife biologists. An animal’s odds for survival

in a new location aren’t very good, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).

“While releasing wildlife in a new location is an option often preferred by well-meaning people opposed to killing animals, this may be at the expense of the released animal or the animals at the release site,” says wildlife biologist Russell Link in the WDFW publication Trapping Wildlife.

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