Stop the Canadian Wolf Massacre!

3500 wolves live in an area in Canada the size of India. The government plan to kill over 3/4 of the population by shooting them from helicopters and poisoning them with strychnine. This is apparently to stop them from killing the depleted numbers of woodland caribou, which the Alberta Caribou Committee claims is the cause of their falling numbers. The cause is actually due to the disturbance of the caribous' migratory routes due to the development of oil pipelines and the destruction of their forest for the oil industry. Analysis shows that the wolves are not actually eating many of the caribou and they are being forced to hunt further afield because hunters have reduced numbers of deer and hares, their main prey. There are even incentives being given for the hunters who kill the most wolves! This massacre gives the federal government the excuse to remove protection from all but 5% of woodland caribou habitat, which would increase the area available for development for oil. This unnecessary killing of native wolves to suit the growing oil industry must not begin!

(Photo by Mike Cline via Wikimedia Commons.)