Wolf Awareness sur Twitter : "#Edmonton @wolfawareness wk Oct 17: Unnatural Enemies by @PyramidProTV & Kevin VanTighem author "The Homeward #Wolf" Howling for Wolves sur Twitter : "Howling For Wolves continues to work at protecting wolves. #wolf #wolves #LiveAndLetHowl. Stop The Wolf Hunt - Save Minnesota's Gray Wolves. Founder's Blog. Two issues loom in my mind lately. One is a troubling question of why not allow “fair chase” hunters who are not necessarily part of the wolf-hating crowd to kill a wolf in a managed hunt.
The second is the attempt by Congress including one of our current Minnesota Senators to permanently de-list the Great Lakes wolf from the Endangered Species list. Some background and history concerning the wolf hysteria:It is easy to disarm the arguments of deer hunters who call for zero tolerance for wolves or advocate for a kill as high as 750 annually or brazenly want them wiped out. These arguments are based on their bizarre claim that there is a scarcity of deer in Minnesota. Since 2000 to 2015, Minnesota has had the largest whitetail deer population in our history. Wildlife managers have repeatedly made the claims that the wolf density in northern Minnesota is the highest in North America and I would not argue this but this has nothing to do with wolves being over populated. Meeting a wild wolf pack. A new BBC film, Snow Wolf Family and Me, explores the lives and habits of arctic wolves, revealing the family secrets of one of our most feared predators.
Ellesmere Island is one of the most remote and beautiful places on Earth. This is the only place in the world where wolves are naive to man and have no fear. It allowed wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan and scientists an unparalleled opportunity to form bonds with a wild wolf family, revealing the remarkable story of their relationships and behaviour. Here series producer Ted Oakes talks about some of the highlights and challenges of being accepted by a wild wolf pack. Snow Wolf Family and Me will be broadcast on 29th and 30th December 2014 at 21:00 on BBC Two. Music by Jean-Marc Petsas. Best viewed full screen.
Native American. Persecution. Attitudes Toward Wolves. Life-after-chernobyl-sergei-gaschaks-photography-from-inside-the-zone-8467725. Using camera traps to take photographs mechanically, as well as taking photographs personally, Gaschak has captured what few have been able to see with their own eyes – the remarkable diversity of wildlife within the zone.
One of the first rescuers on the site of the nuclear disaster, Gaschak has devoted recent years to photographing lynxes, otters, owls and other wildlife, and has even discovered the footprints of brown bears. The exclusion zone stretches for miles around the site of the reactor, and includes Pripyat, which was once a thriving Soviet town of 50,000 inhabitants but has remained a ghost town since the disaster, a time warp of perestroika-era Soviet life. More than 300,000 people evacuated the region in the aftermath of the explosion, and only a few hundred stubborn pensioners have returned, defying government bans on settlement inside the zone. At the time of the disaster, there were few wild animals living in the region around the nuclear plant.
To Kill A Mockingbird. I recently attended the wolf hearings held by the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission in Helena.
The commission is considering initiation of a trapping season, as well as eliminating quotas on the number of wolves that may be killed. The goal is to significantly reduce the state’s wolf population which currently numbers somewhere in the vicinity of 600 animals. The commission will make a final decision on the matter by July. At the hearing I felt like I was witnessing a modern day version of Harper Lee’s famous book To Kill a Mockingbird. In that novel the mockingbird is symbolic of innocence animals and by extension, innocence citizens destroyed by thoughtless and ignorant people. In Lee’s novel the main character, lawyer Atticus Finch, is one of the few residents of the southern community of Maycomb committed to racial equality and fairness. Even the otherwise descent people of that community were unable to put aside the cultural biases they had grown up with.