The B.C. government is set to continue shooting wolves from helicopters in an attempt to save endangered mountain caribou herds from local extinction in the South Selkirk, South Peace and North Columbia herd areas. “The wolf cull, maternity pens, it’s all part of the talk-and-log process that’s going on,” says Craig Pettitt of the Valhalla Wilderness Society. “We know damn well that the caribou need habitat and, as we talk, they are logging their habitat.” Last year, nearly 100 wolves were killed in the South Peace and South Selkirk areas combined. While ministry staff say it is difficult to predict how many wolves will be culled this year, their stated intention is, “to remove all wolves found in the treatment areas.” “This [wolf cull] is a drastic, over-the-top bloodbath,” says Virginia Thompson, who represented the Revelstoke-Shuswap planning district during the 2007 Mountain Caribou Recovery Implementation Planning (MCRIP) process. “And they haven’t even done the minimal amount of habitat control that they promised to do in the last recovery plan.” Read more at the article below and TAKE ACTION by sharing this petition far and wide and DONATE to Pacific Wild's efforts here: pacificwild.org/support-us/donate