If they want to make a Real Difference, they need to stop Hunting the Caribou! Alberta plans to continue the provincial wolf cull for the foreseeable future, but announced Wednesday that it intends to restore habitat in an effort to ease pressure on the endangered woodland caribou. The province retained Eric Denhoff, an experienced mediator, to try and break the …
Environmentalists challenge B.C.’s controversial wolf cull in court
The B.C. government’s controversial wolf cull is being challenged in court by two environmental groups that say the program fails to meet the legal requirements of proper wildlife management. Pacific Wild and the Valhalla Wilderness Society have filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court calling for the cancellation of a wildlife permit that authorizes the wolf kill, and for an …
Use of snares in Western Canadian wolf culls fuels ethical debate
Snares not only are inhumane, but wildly indiscriminate, often killing non-target species, such as cougars, Lynx, deer, bears and moose. As if to underscore the random nature of snares, in late February two golden eagles were brought in to the Medicine River Wildlife Centre near Raven, 60 kilometres southwest of Red Deer, after being caught in wolf snares. One bird …
Wolf snares kill 15 cougars, eagle in central Alberta, spurring debate over hunting method
This is the problem with Trappers mentality! There is no Debate, the proof is in these results! News that snares set for wolves killed 15 cougars and one golden eagle in central Alberta this winter is prompting a call to phase out a hunting method that some call “inhumane.” Dwight Rodtka, a retired Alberta Agriculture specialist in problem wildlife, says he’s not surprised to hear that wolf snares are taking down …