I learned Today from a Source that a Trapper they use as an expert in a case that the WGFD failed to require a Cites Tag for the Trophy Wolf Harvest. Wolves slaughtered in Wyoming must remain in Wyoming! If anyone hear of a Wyoming wolf being transported please let Us Know ASAP!Guess what, their excuse was It just fell through the cracks I guess. I am researching this right now.So the trapper called WGFD to ask, if I harvest a wolf where do I get the Cites Tag to legally transfer the wolf fur to market out of the country? He was told, “I don’t know?”, call U.S. Fish and Wildlife. You likely know who that person is at Fish and Wildlife, The US Fish and Wildlife said there is no Cites Tag process for a trophy wolf in Wyoming, it is not in the regulations. What? Technically that means all harvested wolves must remain in state at this time. As you know Cites is a main way to curb poaching and international transport of animals endangered in certain regions
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Thanks for spotlighting this issue!
CITES is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. If wolf trade is allowed, the consequence will be a repeat of the 1800s to 1900s Bounties of wolves.
Since Idaho and Wyoming especially have insane genocidal state policies toward wolves, all quotas and 12 month seasons will become filled with hunters and trappers seeking to profit from killing.
The wolf remains in deadly peril of slow genetic strangling in the US 48 , though the immense barriers to population connection and genetic flow. They will slowly follow the exampple of tiny Isle Royale National Park, isolated for only 50 years by human climate change. Add to this exclusion and fragmentation, the fact that over 85% of all wolf death is human-caused ALREADY.
(outside tiny Yellowstone, but because of failure to protect Y’stone wolves who follow elk out in winter, also severely damaging that isolated population, which has not been degraded like Isle Royale ONLY because the original wolves came from a varied genetic sample, larger than the 1948 or so dispersal across the now-absent Lake Superior ice of just a couple wolves.)
These reasons form part of the reasons why biologists with any knowledge of genetics and population dynamics favor complete protection of the wolf from management by hunting or lethal removal.
The general public of sport hunters use lupicide to assuage their personal feelings of social impotence, pretty much exactly like the famous mass killers you’ve heard of in the US recently. The only difference is that sport hunters perform a legal activity, albeit on tiny populations of predators who cannot persist, unlike the unimaginable masses of humans , which is not in the least endangered by firearm death, even in thhe most unlawful areas. Further, sport hunters do not do the honorable thing done by these mass homicidals – they do not kill themselves after taking innocent lives.
Humans have no intrinsic right to kill a wolf; the expressed reasons are always self-serving and economic. Consider that store owners and competitors for a job should then logically have the same right to eradicate their competitionn
I remember Takaya too, from back in 2012 following his movements when humans on Vancouver IS were showing that crazy thing in which they clamor to kill “just in case.”
Maybe PtW can publicize this.
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Here’s something I just rec’d from Project Coyote
http://www.projectcoyote.org/lone-wild-wolf-called-takaya-interview-cheryl-alexander/