Genetic diversity comes from genetic mixing and genetic mixing comes from breeding.
Anything that interferes with breeding puts long-term viability at risk.
Methods, which fall under the general heading of population growth suppression, include fertility control, sex ratio skewing and surgical sterilization.
Are you surprised that the advocates prefer methods that are more harmful to wild horses than motorized removal?
Helicopters don’t sterilize mares. They don’t destroy breeding populations and they don’t stop genetic mixing.
They do create genetic bottlenecks but recovery is possible.
Not so for the advocates.
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