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Yet another wolf cull
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There is a wolf cull going on in Canada's North West Territories. The reason given for the cull is preservation of the Cariboo herds. The Cariboo are in serious decline. It has been decided that the wolves are the cause. It is not clear that this cull will actually help the Cariboo. It is not clear that the estimates of wolf numbers are accurate.   

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nwt...-1.5802026

Worse, if it could be worse, they are shooting them from airplanes. It is expensive, inhumane and a waste of resources.
A pilot gave his objections to the cull.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/n-w...-1.5777915


Could there be another reason for the Cariboo decline.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/por...-1.3514386

People who live in the north do eat the Cariboo, but they harvest the whole animal and nothing is wasted. The numbers harvested are sustainable.
The wolves as natural predators do not waste either.  
What isn't sustainable is the killing of numbers of animals and wasting them. 
Holding a wolf cull will not help if humans on the ground are in effect culling the Cariboo.

They would be better to use the money to fund conservation projects and to prevent the wasteful human slaughter of Cariboo.
That is the thing that is causing the imbalance and the decline of the Cariboo herds. Leave the wolves alone. As predators they keep the  herds healthy.
Human hunters do not do that.
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(12-08-2020, 02:24 PM)Catherine Wrote: Could there be another reason for the Cariboo decline.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/por...-1.3514386

People who live in the north do eat the Cariboo, but they harvest the whole animal and nothing is wasted. The numbers harvested are sustainable.
The wolves as natural predators do not waste either.  
What isn't sustainable is the killing of numbers of animals and wasting them. 
Holding a wolf cull will not help if humans on the ground are in effect culling the Cariboo.
My feeling about this is the shameful killing of those Caribou, just to waste them, is quite deliberate. Whoever did that has a plan. That is my instinct about it.
I feel that they have put two and two together, and were quite sure this would end up with the killing of wolves.
Wolves are so hated.

I very much doubt that the wolves hunting patterns would have reduced the Caribou population to that extent; or the few humans who hunt them for food.

Unless....the wolves are stuck in some way in a small unnatural territory?
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There are not that many wolves up there and it is a vast territory. There is room for the wolves and the caribou. There is even room for the small number of people 
who inhabit the north. There isn't room for the wasteful killing of large numbers of caribou or wolves.  It is all about balance and that  kind of killing  is unsustainable because it upsets the balance.

Wolves are definitely hated. There is also a push to open up the area with a road. I suspect there is the possibility of drilling for oil and gas and the animals who live on the land would be a problem for those who want to exploit the land.
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It seems humans always have some agenda. Poor Caribou, and poor Wolves. So much needless killing.
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It is always about profit and wanting to exploit the land. Humans never learn. Exploitation has a way of hitting back at the exploiter. 


When there is a situation like this, I am always reminded of this proverb. 
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If they kill the wolves and the caribou and the people die out, the north will be a barren wasteland.
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