| | AR-News: Guam: Guamanians protest Navy's slaughter of carabao |
 | | Navy spokeswoman Lt. Thurraya Kent has said that the gargantuan wild carabao, which by conservative estimates numbered close to 300 before the culling began, roam around the Naval Ordnance Magazine, presenting both health an environmental risks, and impairing the ability of Navy personnel on the magazine to adequately perform their mission. |
 | | The Navy has long been attempting to reduce the carabao population, but Kent said attempts at adopting the carabao out to the community and using birth control techniques have not been successful on their own, so the Navy decided to add culling to the techniques used to reduce the population. |
 | | She said the Navy would continue to support the carabao adoption program organized by the Department of Agriculture's Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources and the Mayors Council of Guam. |
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