Wolves Archive
2012-02-16 AWA News Release: Canadians Can Stop Massive Wolf Kill
The deadline for Canadians to comment on the federal government’s massive wolf-kill caribou recovery strategy is February 22, 2012. Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) is inviting Canadians to ask Environment Minister Peter Kent to protect the habitat caribou require for long-term survival and recovery, rather than encouraging decades-long poisoning and shooting of many thousands of wolves.
2011-10-31 Alberta Woodland Caribou – Proposed Federal Recovery Strategy Declares War on Wolves, Lets Habitat Degradation Continue
Wild Lands Advocate article, October 2011, by Carolyn Campbell
2011-08-26: Environment Minister Kent Acknowledges Proposed Caribou Recovery Strategy Relies on Wolf Kills
Canadian Press article in which federal Environment Minister Kent states that it bothers him a great deal that predator control has been chosen in his Department's proposed caribou national recovery strategy plan.
2011-08-26 AWA News Release: Federal Government Writes Off Alberta Caribou- War on Wolves Goes National
A long overdue federal woodland caribou recovery strategy released today allows ongoing habitat loss at the hands of Alberta's energy and forestry industries. For the weakest herds in Alberta and across Canada, it leaves the only key management tool as the killing of thousands of wolves.
2011-06-11 Article: Senseless Slaughter of Wolves
A long article in the Edmonton Journal by Canadian author and photographer Ed Struzik. Subtitle: "Alberta has a policy of killing wolves to protect caribou. It's not working." A version of the article was re-published November 2011 with the title "Killing Wolves: A Product of Alberta's Big Oil and Gas Boom" on the Yale environment360 website.
2009-12 Wolves, Fish, (Popes) and "Trophic Cascades"
Wild Lands Advocate article, December 2009, by Nigel Douglas.
2009-12 Will Alberta's Black Wolves Benefit from Climate Change?
Wild Lands Advocate article, December 2009, by Dick Dekker.
2009-08 Caribou and Wolves Imperiled by Government Impotence
Wild Lands Advocate article, August 2009, by Christyann Olson.
2008-08 Albertans Lose Scent of Wolf Sterilization Project
Wild Lands Advocate article, August 2008, by Chris Wearmouth.
2008-04 Killing Wildlife to Save Wildlife
Wild Lands Advocate article, April 2008, by Nigel Douglas.
2008-03-26 Alberta’s War on Wolves: First it’s Sterilization; Now it’s Poisoning
AWA News Release, March 26, 2008, protesting government use of strychnine to poison wolves.
2007-12 Government Research to Kill Wolves
Wild Lands Advocate article, December 2007, by Nigel Douglas.
2007-10 Alberta’s War on Wolves, Then and Now
Wild Lands Advocate article, October 2007, by Dick Dekker. Historical review of wolf control in Alberta.
2006-04 Finding Ways to Live with Wolves in Cattle Country
Wild Lands Advocate article, April 2006, by Jim Pissot.
2006-02-14 AWA News Release: Senseless Slaughter of Wolves Underway in Little Smoky
Thirty-four wolves have been shot and killed so far in the Little Smoky area under the authorization of Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (SRD). The wolf kill is being undertaken as part of SRD’s Woodland caribou recovery process in one of Alberta's most threatened herds.
2003-10 Wolf Control, Keystone Species And Other Logical Conservation Conundrums
Wild Lands Advocate article, October 2003, by Mark Hebblewhite.
