Help end Western Canada's helicopter 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.
Check out this letter to Science by Dr.'s C. Darimont and P. Paquet:
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's WOLF KILL PROGRAM
In British Columbia, a government-sanctioned aerial-gunning program for wolves began in 2015. The program continues to expand into more areas of the province where thousands of wolves have been gunned down, while important caribou ranges continue to be logged by clear-cutting old-growth forests that these animals depend upon.
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 4,000 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.
Although these caribou are federally listed on Canada's Species At Risk Act, the government of Alberta continues to expand oil and gas extraction and infrastructure within important caribou habitat. All the while, more wolves are killed as scapegoats. Public engagement is needed.
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.