URGENT! Alberta has proposed creating a caribou zoo and killing wolves for the next 50 years!
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Wolf Awareness uses the results of scientific research as a knowledge base for educational and public outreach programs. We have also played an active role in influencing public policies pertaining to wolf conservation.
2 projects are underway, both of which involve research and outreach:
i. BC Chilcotin Wolf Feeding Ecology Study
ii.North-Eastern Alberta Wolf and Coyote Bounty Research
This project is the first study of wolves in the remote Brittany Triangle (largely protected) and Nemaiah Valley, where there exists a small human population and some ranching. The Brittany Triangle is also home to wild horses. Researchers are analyzing wolf scat and using stable isotopes from wolf guard hair to better understand the dietary habits of wolves in these adjacent areas. This research will help to fill an important knowledge gap about predator - prey interactions among wolves, wild horses and domestic livestock. Accurate information will aid our efforts to foster coexistence among wolves and people as we combine science with community - level outreach goals that will allow for co - existence between domestic cattle, horses and wolves in the available landscape without detrimental effects to any species.
The Valhalla Wilderness Society, Friends of Nemaiah Valley and Xeni Gwet'in community of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation are project partners in this study.
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Check out this short video about the research area and the important work FONV is helping to accomplish there - by film maker Jeremy Williams of River Voices Productions. Click HERE.
Join our "Follow My Paw Prints"© Program to help fund this important research. You will receive updates about the research project and learn with us about the individual wolves and wolf packs we are learning about.
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Support and funding for these projects has been provided through public donations, sponsorships and various foundations and private donors.
Wolf Awareness and our project partners would like to thank and recognize the generous support we have received.
TOGETHER, we can make a DIFFERENCE.
A Special Thank You to those who have made our work possible!
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Chilcotin Wolf Feeding Ecology Study
AB Bounty Project:
Fostering Coexistence to Maintain Ecological Integrity
Project partners involved in this initiative include:
Wildlife Biologist Dr. Gilbert Proulx, who is the Director of Science at Alpha Wildlife Research & Management Ltd,
Certified predator-friendly rancher Louise Liebenberg, co-owner of Grazerie Farms,
and Coyote Watch Canada, a Federal, Not-For-Profit, community-based wildlife organization, which advocates positive wildlife experiences through education, research, mediation, intervention, and conflict resolution.
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In Alberta, bounties to control wolves and coyotes have been implemented since 2007 under the pretense of minimizing livestock depredation. In the last 5 years, more than 1,400 wolves and 25,000 coyotes have been killed by bounty hunters.
Although bounties are known to be an ineffective management practice, they are maintained by some Alberta municipalities under the pretense of reducing livestock depredation by wolves and coyotes. However, there are no data ascertaining the municipalities’ claims, and the persistence of bounties in rural regions is anecdotal rather than science or fact-based.
On the basis of small scale surveys and unscientific extrapolations, Alberta Beef Producers claim high annual losses to predation, primarily from wolves and coyotes.
The fact is that there are no data ascertaining such claims, and the persistence of bounties in rural regions is largely based on perceptions rather than facts.
This project aims to assess the importance of livestock in the diet of wolves and coyotes in areas where small farms and ranches abut upon or are near wilderness areas in northeast Alberta, and provide education to both public and producers about non-lethal methods for preventing conflicts and deterring natural predators, (ie. methods of co-existence) as well as the ecological values of wolves and coyotes.
Project partners Louise Libenberg and Dr. Proulx have captured some media attention as they continue to speak out against bounties :
Meet theAlberta rancher who believes wolf bounty doesn't work
and
War on Predators Wrong ApproachSays Biologist