Mirror, mirror on the wall: The wolf as scapegoat
An essay from Paul C. Paquet about our relationship with wolves.
Research: Addressing poor statistical support for wolf control and maternal penning as conservation measures for endangered mountain caribou
The scientists looked closely at the data provided in a previous study that examined how 18 caribou populations responded to different treatments including wolf culls, maternal penning, moose reduction, and combinations thereof, as well as controls. There were important errors in the statistical methods associated with that prior study…
Mismeasured mortality: correcting estimates of wolf poaching in the United States
This research tests and rejects the long-held idea that data lost when known animals disappear were unbiased, under conditions common to most, if not all, studies using marked animals. Published government estimates are affected by the biases discovered. And so government estimates of systemically underestimating risks of poaching…
BC: Stop Killing Wolves – rent a billboard today
Raincoast has initiated a billboard campaign to raise public awareness about the ill-conceived and inhumane BC wolf cull…
Witnessing extinction: habitat loss, caribou and the wolf cull
Eight environmental groups applaud a recently published scientific report that reveals how much habitat the caribou in the South Peace region have lost…
Raincoast launches BC wolf cull billboard campaign
Raincoast has launched a billboard campaign calling attention to the inhumane slaughter of wolves that is occurring at the hands of the BC government…
Wolf and caribou management backgrounder
Raincoast’s Dr. Paul Paquet provides an overview on the fallacy of killing wolves to recover caribou…
Wolf murder Canadian style continues as if it’s conservation
Marc Bekoff/Psychology Today
An earlier murder escapade in Alberta didn’t work and there’s no reason to assume this one will…
AVAAZ Petition launched to stop the Alberta wolf cull
The Alberta government and its resource industries have destroyed the habitat for endangered caribou. Rather than address this problem, they have chosen to scapegoat wolves…
Your voices against the wolf cull
Read some of the letters written to Minister Steve Thomson, Premier Christy Clark and BC MLAs, in opposition to the government’s wolf cull. Send us yours…
BC hunting wolves by helicopter to save endangered caribou
James Keller/The Canadian Press
Government-contracted hunters were in helicopters over two regions of BC on Thursday as the province launched a controversial wolf culling program in an attempt to save endangered caribou…
Wolves, Caribou, Tar Sands and Canada’s Oily Ethics
The Huffington Post
By Chris Genovali, Paul Paquet and Chris Darimont
The real cost of Alberta’s tar sands development is being borne by wolves, caribou, and other wild species…