EDMONTON — An extensive study of caribou herds across British Columbia and Alberta suggests a way to reverse a long and steady decline of the endangered species — kill more wolves and moose and pen pregnant cows.
Restoring habitat damaged by oil, gas and forestry activity is too slow, said Serrouya. Herds don’t have the decades that takes. Those five ranges saw a total of 144 wolves killed every year, mostly by aerial gunning and strychnine. A cull that large over the entire study area would result annually in nearly 650 carcasses, although Serrouya said that’s not being recommended.
“What we need to do is reduce the encounters between wolves and caribou,” he said. “You can do that without reducing the number of wolves.”
Human interference is what caused the problem in the first place so more meddling is not the answer
I knocked a wolf out once
I plain disagree.
The key word in your statement is “might”. Will mankind, or should I say “peoplekind”, ever come to understand that it is not smarter than Mother Nature. The number of predators increases and decreases with the volume of the food supply. The strong survive and the weak perish.
I don't trust them
Why not let nature decide. It has for millions of years before humans started to manipulate it. With terrible results.
. Kill the Wolves and suffer the consequences. Coyotes,Moose and Deer over pop. Look at what happened inthe U.S. Smarten up!
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