The GeesePeace Solution

First, … Focus on Leadership. Community leaders need make only one decision. That is … we will solve the problem … before crisis … we will do it humanely. We will focus our energies on finding a solution we all can accept and that solution will make us a more unified, spirited and proud community.

Second, … Stabilize the population growth rate of resident Canada geese. Left unchecked, the numbers of Canada geese will double every five years. GeesePeace has consulted with animal welfare, animal rights, and wildlife conservation organizations and leaders and State and National Wildlife managers.  They all agree that a concerted effort to locate goose nesting areas, then addling/oiling or replacing of Canada goose eggs will stop the problem in its tracks, giving communities time to devise, organize and implement site aversion strategies. GeesePeace, in consultation, with these organizations promotes a protocol that requires that eggs be found and addled/oiled in the early stages of the development process. The animal rights and welfare groups believe that this is far more humane than killing the geese that made the egg. It is very similar in to the ethical solution of spaying and neutering dogs and cats.

Because this solution is humane, ethical and non-controversial it is easy to recruit and train volunteers in the community. Governments do not have the resources to locate the nests and addle/oil eggs on the scale necessary to resolve community conflicts with "resident" Canada geese. Community leaders and volunteers must organize and carryout this activity.

GeesePeace has developed leadership and training materials, and will help communities take this first step to solving the problem in their community.  Community forums and training programs have been scheduled for all areas of the country that are experiencing a growing conflict with Canada goose.

Finally, … Implement site aversion strategies that return the parks, lawns and recreation areas to the community. What GeesePeace has found in its pilot programs around Fairfax County, VA is that there are many areas that geese will go where the geese will not come into conflict with humans or the tolerance for the geese is high enough that the overall problem is solved for all. The solution is simple. By various methods make the low tolerance and high conflict areas unattractive to the geese. GeesePeace has tried most of the known strategies and has devised some of its own. Some worked, some did not. GeesePeace will soon publish a site aversion and community organization manual that will outline how communities of various sizes and environments can effectively and economically eliminate conflicts with Canada geese.