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That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Conservation isn’t about getting all animals to live together in harmony or some shit. An invasive species is threatening to cause the extinction of another, so the former needs to be curbed to save the latter.
Maybe if they could be picked up and moved somewhere else that would be better. But how exactly are you going to mass migrate half a million owls?
I don't fully agree. Extinction can be natural, what right do humans have to intervene in this? Just because conservation makes us feel nice?
Each situation is extremely intricate of course, so maybe this is the right choice in this instance, such as preventing a larger impact to a local ecosystem, or if the barred owls were introduced directly unnaturally. But direct human intervention should always be greatly scrutinized. We already do enough damage indirectly from exploiting global resources.
But the invasive species is only there because of direct human intervention. Just because it's an externality, doesn't mean it's not our fault or responsibility to try and fix it.