eBay encourages wildlife depletion?
E Commerce Journal February 13, 2009 eBay auction website was asked to ban the sales of guided trophy hunts for bears, wolves, cougars and other top predators.
Raincoast calls on eBay to stop auctioning trophy hunts
CFAX 1070 Feb 11, 2009 Adam Stirling Raincoast says the lives of BC’s majestic predators such as grizzly bears, black bears and cougars, should not be sold online. But, Raincoast executive director Chris Genovali says that’s exactly what’s happening with trophy hunts being auctioned off on eBay.
Raincoast launches eBay campaign to end bids for grizzly hunts
February 11, 2009 Sidney, B.C. – Wildlife advocates urged eBay to halt the sale of trophy hunts of grizzly and brown bears, black bears, wolves, cougars and other predators on its website.
Raincoast scientists contribute to paper on impacts of commercial harvesting
Raincoast scientists Dr. Chris Darimont and Dr. Paul Paquet are authors on an important paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\’a0 The paper examines the impacts of commercial harvesting on plants and animals.
Old growth clearcuts are pushing out deer
Victoria News January 14, 2009 by Chris Genovail Re: “Petition Calls For End To Old Growth Logging On Vancouver Island” The Ministry of Environment has acknowledged that the Island’s cougar and wolf populations have been in decline as a result of a drop in the deer population, which is linked to the clearcut logging of…
The cry of the wolf
Globe 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.
War on wolves fails test of reason, efficacy and morality
The 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.
Faecal-centric approaches to wildlife ecology and conservation
Darimont, C.T., T.E. Reimchen, H. Bryan, and P.C. Paquet. 2008. Faecal-centric approaches to wildlife ecology and conservation; methods, data and ethics. Wildlife Biology in Practice 4: 73-87. Faecal-centric approaches in pdf
Spawning salmon disrupt tight trophic coupling between wolves and ungulate prey in coastal British Columbia
Darimont, C.T., P.C. Paquet, and T.E. Reimchen. 2008. Spawning salmon disrupt tight trophic coupling between wolves and ungulate prey in coastal British Columbia. BMC Ecology 8:14 Salmon and Wolves in pdf
Howling with happiness for Alberta’s wolves
Calgary Herald Editorial Tuesday, October 28, 2008 It’s always heartening when government bows to the advice of experts like Paul Paquet, one of the foremost wolf experts in North America, instead of forging on blindly ahead regardless.
Controversial wolf sterilization plan scrapped
By Cathy Ellis \ Rocky Mountain Outlook \ October 23, 2008 7:00 AM \ \ A controversial government-endorsed University of Alberta experiment to sterilize adult wolves and kill off other members of the packs in order to boost elk numbers has been scrapped.
Wolves prefer seafood to steak
In a remote neck of Canada’s backwoods the deer catch a break during the fall. That’s when the wolves go fishing. “Although most people imagine wolves chasing deer and other hoofed animals …