Whooping Crane Research Paper

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To emphasize, the issue of killing whooping cranes by hunters, has a left a negative impact. As a repercussion, a fine for killing these species, will be issued to the individual held responsible. In 2012 of April a man from South Dakota, was plead guilty in the killing of an adult crane. A release from the U.S. attorney's office, district of South Dakota states “The whooping crane in this case was one of about three hundred wild whooping cranes that migrate from the wintering grounds along the gulf coast, to the wood buffalo state park located in Alberta and the northwest territories of Canada. This population of whooping cranes is the only self-sustaining population in the world”. In effect, this plea resulted in the man being sentenced to an $85,000 in restitution, two years of probation, as well as, a $25 assessment to the victim assistance fund (The Fund is financed by fines and penalties that are paid by convicted federal offenders, not from tax dollars). …show more content…
In like manner, back down along the the coast, a duck hunter turned himself into a game warden in Aransas County in correspondingly with the accidental shooting of a juvenile whooping crane, in January of 2015 on the St. Joseph's Island. The hunter believed that the juvenile was a sand hill crane (The cousin of the whooping crane) but after taking a closer evaluation of the bird, he concluded that it was indeed a whooping crane that he killed, and soon turned himself in. The former whooping crane recovery coordinator Tom Stehn, voices that the Aransas Wildlife Refuge is taking steps of opening the Matagorda Island Marshes, to waterfowl hunting, and propose that hunters should be required to take an online identification course, to more effectively protect these whooping cranes.(USFWS Releases Whooping Crane Estimate, 2013).
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