Crow shooting and wildlife control: How can we co-exist better?

About this episode

The episode discusses the resumption of crow shooting in Singapore and explores how humans and wildlife can coexist more peacefully.

Crow shooting is set to resume after an increasing number of reported crow attacks, highlighting the ongoing tension between humans and wildlife. If Singapore wants to be a City in Nature, what needs to change so that people and animals can co-exist peacefully? Tiffany Ang and Steven Chia unpack the issue with Soh Ze Bin from the National Parks Board and Kalai Vanan Balakrishnan from ACRES in this week’s Deep Dive podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Tiffany Ang, Steven Chia

Guests: Soh Ze Bin, Kalai Vanan Balakrishnan

Topics covered

• crow shooting
• wildlife control
• human-animal coexistence
• urban nature
• environmental policy

Keywords

• crow shooting
• wildlife control
• Singapore
• human-animal coexistence
• National Parks Board
• ACRES
• urban nature

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Parks Board, ACRES

Places: Singapore

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