Adam Sterling of CFAX Radio interviews Raincoast’s Dr. Chris Darimont on coastal wolves and the affect that human interference has had on their breeding behaviours on Vancouver Island.
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Ira Flatow, host of NPR’s Science Friday, interviews Raincoast’s Dr. Chris Darimont on the impacts of human predation on the evolution of hunted species.
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CFAX Radio’s Murray Langdon speaks with Raincoast’s marine mammal scientist, Kathy Heise about the lawsuit that Raincoast and several other NGOs, filed against the federal government to protect Canada’s two populations of resident killer whales. The case was filed on the basis that Fisheries and Oceans Canada, under the Species At Risk Act, is obligated to protect the critical habitat of threatened and endangered species.
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Unnatural Selection. CBC ‘Quirks and Quarks’
With Bob McDonald: It’s perhaps not surprising that humans are having an impact on the evolution of other animals on the planet. What is surprising, according to Dr. Chris Darimont, an NSERC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the way we’re doing it. Dr. Darimont and his colleagues looked at several examples of species that humans prey on: fish, plants and animals. What they found is that these species are forced to change far more quickly than happens with more “natural” selection. What’s more, since humans tend to choose the largest and healthiest animals, the kind of selection we do is very different from natural predators that ordinarily take the sick and the weak.
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Frankly, deer, I don’t give a damn. CBC ‘As it happens’
Examination of droppings reveal that timber wolves pooh-pooh venison, in favour of salmon. Raincoast’s Dr. Chris Darimont is on CBC Radio’s As It Happens talking about BC’s salmon-eating wolves, Sept 2, 2008.
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