Earlier this year, the B.C. government released two long-awaited draft agreements to protect endangered southern mountain caribou populations. One of them, the Draft Section 11 Agreement between B.C. and Canada, opens the door to just about any and all predator control.

The draft proposes a renewal of the on-going wolf cull — now in its fifth year — alongside suggestions to kill cougars, black bears, grizzly bears and wolverines, the latter of which are two species at risk.

The agreement does not reject targeting B.C.’s wolves with strychnine and other poisons, wolf-killing contests, killing pups in their dens, and “Judas” wolf killing strategies — a cruel practice where an individual is kept alive for repeated persecution year-after-year so government aerial snipers can follow it to its family and gun them down.⁣
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To prevent continued, unethical killing of wolves in B.C. and the further decline in endangered caribou populations, it’s time to protect the intact, critical habitat that remains before it’s logged. Pacific Wild is highlighting the summary of the draft agreements by Valhalla Wilderness Society this week in our wolf community, The Call.

Join The Call now to learn more and see how you can help: http://thecall.pacificwild.org