URGENT! Alberta has proposed creating a caribou zoo and killing wolves for the next 50 years!
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Poison-WARNING!
Poison baits are often the subject of vigorous debate over the impact they have on non-target animals, including endangered species, domestic animals and companion animals. Alberta is currently the only province or territory in Canada that is using these indescriminate and harmful posions.
Alberta's use of the posions Strychnine and Compound 1080 can and do lead to the suffering and death of many non-target species, including endangered species, domestic and companion animals, as well as the intended wild canids.
Read this paper by Dr. Gilbert Proulx and other experts about why poisoning wolves with strychnine is unacceptable in experimental studies and conservation programmes.
Compound 1080
SODIUM MONOFLUOROACE, commonly called Sodium fluoroacetate or Compound 1080 is a highly toxic substance that has been used as a poison to kill off vertebrate species considered undesirable ("pests") by humans. The use of this compound is highly controversial as it presents great risks to numerous species sharing a landscape (Alberta Sustainable Resources Development Report 2008). The properties of this compound render its ecological impacts as long term and far-reaching.
There is no antidote to 1080. It is highly toxic to mammals and birds, and has varying potential toxicity levels on fish and invertebrates.
The properties of this compound render its ecological impacts as long term and far-reaching.
There is no antidote to 1080. It is highly toxic to mammals and birds, and has varying potential toxicity levels on fish and invertebrates. Because of its non-selectivity (Pesticide Management Regulation Agency 2014), Compound 1080 has killed humans, pets, eagles, badgers, bobcats, raccoons, bears, wolves, coyotes and various other wildlife species (Defenders of Wildlife 1982). The residual poison left in the tissues of 1080 victims are toxic to scavengers (Defenders of Wildlife 1982), and the vomit from a victim can also pass the poison on to others if it is ingested (Randall 1981). Furthermore, animals that are subjected to a non-lethal dose of the poison have a reduced chance of survival due to other causes after being weakened, as wildlife depend upon alertness, agility, hunting and/or escape skills to survive (Defenders of Wildlife 1982).
Strychnine
STRYCHNINE, a central nervous system stimulant (Pesticide Management Regulation Agency 2008) is toxic to ALL wildlife, according to the PMRA Approved label 14-MAR-2008 2007-8667, under the section titled "Environmental Precautions" (Pesticide Management Regulation Agency 2008).
Strychnine was first used in Canada in 1928 . According to Pesticide Management Regulation Agency records, Strychnine was first registered for use in Alberta in 1987, for the control of wolves, coyotes and black bears. However, the toxicant had been used under the authority if the province for several years prior to this date.
The most recent government approval of Strychnine use in Alberta occurred in 2012, during which time registration was approved and renewed.
Since 2005, more than 800 wolves have been killed under the guise of protecting the Little Smokey Caribou herd in habitat 95% disturbed by oil and gas infrastructure. Wolves were killed in strangling snares, gunned down from helicopters and poisoned using elk and moose killed and laced with strychnine. Indiscriminate weapons, snares killed 676 other animals, including 2 caribou. There is no way to estimate how many non-target animals died of strychnine poisoning.
