Help end western Canada's Wolf Killing Programs
Wolves in Canada are running out of places to hide. Each winter, these highly intelligent, highly sentient beings are gunned down from helicopters that are contracted by provincial governments.
END AERIAL GUNNING OF WOLVES IN CANADA.
In British Columbia and Alberta, the provincial governments have been directing an unwarranted and inhumane wolf killing program ostensibly to protect declining caribou populations. Wolves continue to be killed in unspeakable ways, for no reason. The real culprit driving caribou to extinction is habitat loss.
Western Canada's resource extraction practices threaten caribou, wolves, old growth forests, and more.
These are invaluable and irreplaceable.
Letter to Science by C. Darimont and P. Paquet: Canada wolf cull subsidy damages caribou habitat.
The Truth about Aerial Gunning
It is nearly impossible to deliver a lethal shot to an animal that’s being chased by a helicopter.
Far from 'clean kills', many uncontrollable conditions in the field result in severe injuries that last from several hours to days. No animal should have to experience such agony.
Wolf kill programs hurt wolves and ecosystems.
BRITISH COLUMBIA WOLF KILLING PROGRAM
In British Columbia, a government-sanctioned aerial-gunning program for wolves began in 2015 and has now killed more than 2,000 wolves. The program continues to expand into more areas of the province, while caribou ranges continue to be logged, including the clear-cutting of old-growth forests that these animals depend upon for their survival. This practice is not only leading to the demise of caribou, but it is also causing the collapse of the last functioning inland rainforest on the planet.
Logging practices and new roads take a huge toll on caribou by disturbing and altering the habitat they have evolved to survive in.
The BC government continues to knowingly allow this to happen.
ALBERTA's WOLF KILLING PROGRAM
In Alberta, more than 3,615 wolves have been killed in and adjacent to caribou ranges since 2005, ostensibly to protect caribou herds. Most of these herds continue to face ongoing habitat destruction and impoverishment, like the Little Smoky herd whose range has been more than 95% disturbed by oil and gas infrastructure.
Wolves are inherently and intrinsically valuable.
There is a lack of scientific evidence that wolf kill programs increase ungulate populations. In fact, killing wolves over a prolonged period has major ecological repercussions, negatively impacting many species, including plants and animals, in the ecosystem.
The inhumane killing of thousands of wolves is ethically unsound, regardless of the potential outcome.