Manitoba Co-operator
Deciding where to remove animals requires careful planning based on where CWD has been found.

Managing CWD means some deer have got to die

Animal removal, including hunting, will be key to nipping chronic wasting disease at the bud

British Columbia, like Manitoba, is in the early days of its fight against chronic wasting disease. Things are moving quickly, and they must. On March 13, the British Columbia government announced it would harvest deer in the Kootenays. The word came six weeks after CWD, a fatal prion disease in deer, elk, moose and caribou,