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Press Release: BC government has extended its public feedback period to January 31, for proposals to increase trophy killing of wolves and grizzly bears.
Read morePublic consultation on expanded grizzly and wolf hunts in the Peace Region has been extended until January 31, 2016.
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Canadian Press / Globe and Mail
Wolves in areas that are heavily hunted have higher stress and reproductive hormones compared with those under lower hunting pressure…
Sarah Petrescu / Times Colonist
Wolves in areas of Canada where they are heavily hunted experience higher levels of stress and reproductive hormones…
Marc Bekoff / Psychology Today
A study just published in the journal Functional Ecology shows that heavily hunted wolves show changes…
Listen to the CKNW discussion on the wolf kill contest with Raincoast’s Sr Scientist and wolf expert Dr. Paul Paquet…
Read moreBy Dene Moore The Canadian Press
The BC government lifted hunting restrictions on wolves. But Raincoast carnivore expert Dr. Paul Paquet said the ministry doesn’t have the information needed to make that decision…
The BC government has a new wolf management plan with no closed season and no bag limit. CFAX interviews carnivore scientist Dr. Paul Paquet from Raincoast. Listen in…
Read moreby Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun
The BC government has declared open season on wolves in the Cariboo region, a move that critics like Raincoast’s Dr. Paul Paquet contend is unjustifiable and based on politics, not science…
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B.C. government faced with tough decision on caribou recovery issue By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun, March 18, 2010 The public has rejected the idea of an aerial wolf kill in B.C. to benefit threatened mountain caribou, even before the first gun has been loaded.
Read moreGlobe and Mail December 19, 2008 by Chris Darimont and Chris Genovali With dismay we read Mark Hume’s article (B.C.’s Quiet War On Wolves – Dec.15). Emboldened by the forest industry and hunting groups, the province has demonized and made scapegoats of wolves for the decline of everything from marmots to mountain caribou.
Read moreThe real culprit in the decline of the caribou is human activity The Vancouver Sun December 18, 2008\ By Chris Darimont and Chris Genovali With dismay we read Larry Pynn’s article (Wolves killed to protect caribou, Dec. 15) regarding the B.C. government’s clandestine war on wolves. What an astounding folly-in-the-making, and on several grounds.
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