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Designing nonviolent ways for humans and animals to live in harmony鈥攊n the city.
David Feld
David Feld finds ways for human communities to coexist with Canada geese, which were the only free wild animals he remembers seeing during his Brooklyn childhood. 鈥淪ometimes they flew low enough for me to hear the whoosh of their powerful wings,鈥 he writes.
When goose droppings around a lake in Feld鈥檚 suburban Virginia neighborhood became a nuisance, his community was bitterly divided over whether to kill the birds. So Feld, a systems engineer, devised a nonviolent solution. The neighborhood adopted border collies to divert geese from yards and beaches, and volunteers acted as 鈥渆gg addlers鈥 to prevent the goose population from growing.
Feld co-founded the nonprofit GeesePeace to share his program and is working on a related project, DeerPeace.
Feld has seen conflicted communities transform their anger into a push for solutions. 鈥淎nytime you have a problem, you have energy,鈥 he says.
Fabien Tepper
is a freelance animal policy journalist, translator, painter, pedicab driver, and dog walker based in Boston.
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