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…
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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…
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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…
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Five reasons to oppose BC’s wolf cull
Five reasons you need to write, phone or email your MLA and call on them to stop gunning down wolves by helicopter…
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BC government slaughtering wolves
BC government kills wolves as scapegoats for caribou decline…
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New study shows hunted wolves under stress
Listen to Raincoast’s Dr. Chris Darimont discuss our study on the stress that hunting causes to wolves…
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Hunted wolves are under stress
Journal Paper: Heavily hunted wolves have higher stress and reproductive steroids than wolves with lower hunting pressure…
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Heavily hunted wolves more stressed, study says
Wolves in areas of Canada where they are heavily hunted experience higher levels of stress and reproductive hormones – which could change their evolution – suggests new research from the Sidney-based Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
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Wolves on BC island genetically different from those on mainland
Dirk Meissner / The Canadian Press
Wolf researchers from Raincoast and UVic find that island wolves have diet that consists of marine foods, up to 75 per cent… -
Where’s the science?
Paul Paquet & Bob Ferris / S.J. Mercury News
Sadly, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recently shown contempt for both when it comes to the recovery of gray wolves… -
Wolf habituation a human issue
Chris Bolster and Dean Unger / Powell River Peak
Management of few animals in BC is more contentious than wolves. Seen by some as a symbol of our wilderness heritage and by others as a threat… -
U.S. relocation of Canadian wolves may be too successful
Dene Moore / The Canadian Press
The problem lies not in whether the wolves can adapt, says Dr. Paquet, but whether people who have lived without the top-tier predators for generations can do so…
