BENÅDO SEASON OPENS IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS

Guam Benådo

As much as it is legal, moral and cultural, it breaks my heart to look at the picture above and to imagine it being shot or killed. I eat fish and an occasional chicken, but the creature above just pulls at my heart strings.  But, I am told that hunting during legal times is necessary to keep the benådo population manageable on our small island. 

The Department of Agriculture announced recently that hunting season for benådo begins April 15 and runs through September 30.  Did you know that you can be as young as 13 years old and get a hunting license on Guam?

Benådo were brought to Guam from the Philippines by Spanish Governor Mariano Tobias, who was Governor from 1771 till 1774.  Our word "benådo" is borrowed from the Spanish "venado."