Petitioning B.C. Liberals Premier Christy Clark and 5 others
Pacific Wild
Pacific Wild is a B.C. based non-profit wildlife conservation organization and a leading advocate for changes to wolf management in British Columbia. www.pacificwild.org
Save B.C. Wolves!
What's at stake...
Pacific Wild
Denny Island, B.C., Canada
January 15, 2015
B.C. Government green-lights controversial wolf
hunt in the South Selkirk and South Peace regions. As many as 184 wolves
to be shot from helicopters.
Decades of habitat destruction and human
encroachment have left BC’s mountain caribou on the edge of survival.
Instead of protecting critical food and habitat for caribou, such as the
lichen rich interior forests, the BC government has now placed the
blame on wolves. Over 180 wolves are now being targeted for aerial
killing in the next two months. These highly social and intelligent
animals, icons of our natural heritage, should not be killed because of
government negligence. Killing all the wolves in BC won’t bring the
caribou back in the absence of habitat protection.
Wolves are highly social and intelligent animals
and research shows that predator kill programs increase reproductive
rates in wolves and destabilizes pack structure causing more predation
of livestock and other non-native prey.
It is the view of Pacific Wild that this
announcement is scientifically unsound and that wolves are being used as
a scapegoat to divert attention from the fundamental problem of ongoing
habitat destruction and displacement caused by human encroachment.
"This is not management, it’s a tax-payer funded kill program of one of our most iconic species.” said Ian McAllister, Conservation Director for Pacific Wild. "This is not only a horrific day for wolves in British Columbia but a sad day for public engagement and policy that will surely bring international condemnation to our borders."
"This is not management, it’s a tax-payer funded kill program of one of our most iconic species.” said Ian McAllister, Conservation Director for Pacific Wild. "This is not only a horrific day for wolves in British Columbia but a sad day for public engagement and policy that will surely bring international condemnation to our borders."
Pacific Wild is a B.C. based non-profit wildlife conservation organization and a leading advocate for changes to wolf management in British Columbia. www.pacificwild.org
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