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A group of humans who love North American grey wolves are fighting to reinstate endangered species protections in the Northern Rocky Mountains, where 80% of the...
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Alberta is the only province in Canada still using strychnine to kill animals, including wolves and coyotes
Health Canada, under Patty Hajdu, in March 2020 re-authorized poisoning wolves with strychnine. (Beth Clifton collage) Big Bad Wolf blamed for habitat loss due to global warming EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada––Again this Christmas season, Alberta Environment & Parks will welcome Santa’s reindeer by setting out strychnine. The strychnine will be not for Santa, nor for the reindeer, the North American variety of whom are called caribou, but rather for the Big Bad Wolf, as part of a wildlife management strategy bizarrely mixing up fairy tales. Tangling the my...
Federal health minister asked to review Alberta's use of strychnine as wolf control by Bob Weber, The Canadian Press Posted Dec 18, 2020 4:00 am EDT Last Updated Dec 18, 2020 at 4:14 am EDT A wolf pack walk along the Bow River Parkway near Lake Louise, Alta, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward EDMONTON — Animal advocates have asked the federal health minister to review a decision that allows Alberta to keep using strychnine to poison wolves in an ongoing effort to preserve caribou herds. Wolf Awareness and Animal Justice filed the request with Health Canada earlier th...
Bob Weber A wolf pack walk along the Bow River Parkway near Lake Louise, Alta, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. Animal advocates have asked the federal health minister to review a decision to allow Alberta to keep using strychnine to poison wolves in an ongoing effort to preserve caribou herds. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward December 18, 2020 - 1:00 AM EDMONTON - Animal advocates have asked the federal health minister to review a decision that allows Alberta to keep using strychnine to poison wolves in an ongoing effort to preserve caribou herds. Wolf Awareness and Anim...