Nearly 5,000 deer saved throughout Southampton, Sagaponack, East Hampton, Riverhead, Brookhaven, and Shelter Island
Written by John Di Leonardo
March 16, 2014
Following a 300-person protest, meetings with town officials, and a successful restraining order against the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Humane Long Island and the Wildlife Preservation Coalition of Eastern Long Island stopped massacres of nearly 5,000 deer in Southampton, Sagaponack, East Hampton, Riverhead, Brookhaven, and Shelter Island.
Southold, the only town that moved forward with a massacre, managed to kill only 192 deer out of a goal of 3,000, proving not only that the deer were smarter than the USDA, but also that their population was far less than both hunters' and the town of Southold had claimed.