ellapantheraleo: rhamphotheca: Wolves to be Poisoned Over Tar Sands in Canada from Wildlife Promise Late last week, internal documents went public showing Canada is fretting over its sullied reputation for unfettered fossil fuel development, while resorting to poisoning wolves rather than fixing the problem. NWF released a paper today showing tar sands, oil and gas development in Canada is contributing to the decline in caribou herds. Rather than improve environmental practices to protect and restore caribou habitat, Canadian wildlife officials are poisoning wolves with strychnine-laced bait. The news comes as Alberta and Canadian officials scramble to address environmental monitoring failures that are wreaking havoc up north. The highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline proposal would move this Canadian dirty oil through the heartland of the U.S. to export, making the U.S. complicit in causing excruciating wildlife culling. Strychnine progresses painfully from muscle spasms to convulsions to suffocation over a period of hours. The NWF paper says the poison will also put at risk animals like raptors, wolverines and cougars that eat the poisoned bait or scavenge on the carcasses of poisoned wildlife. *** You can help stop the poisoning of wolves. Click here to TAKE ACTION *** (photo: Daniel Mott) What the hell - population management by predator culling is so rarely effective I’d be willing to say it NEVER WORKS. Just not good ecology. Also, strychnine? Really? Of all the ways to kill them, you choose strychnine? My god. I’ve seen dogs die from strychnine and that’s not a method of death I’d ever willingly inflict on something. View high resolution

ellapantheraleo:

Wolves to be Poisoned Over Tar Sands in Canada
from Wildlife Promise
Late last week, internal documents went public showing Canada is fretting over its sullied reputation for unfettered fossil fuel development, while resorting to poisoning wolves rather than fixing the problem. NWF released a paper today showing tar sands, oil and gas development in Canada is contributing to the decline in caribou herds. Rather than improve environmental practices to protect and restore caribou habitat, Canadian wildlife officials are poisoning wolves with strychnine-laced bait. The news comes as Alberta and Canadian officials scramble to address environmental monitoring failures that are wreaking havoc up north.
The highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline proposal would move this Canadian dirty oil through the heartland of the U.S. to export, making the U.S. complicit in causing excruciating wildlife culling.
Strychnine progresses painfully from muscle spasms to convulsions to suffocation over a period of hours. The NWF paper says the poison will also put at risk animals like raptors, wolverines and cougars that eat the poisoned bait or scavenge on the carcasses of poisoned wildlife.
(photo: Daniel Mott)
What the hell - population management by predator culling is so rarely effective I’d be willing to say it NEVER WORKS. Just not good ecology. Also, strychnine? Really? Of all the ways to kill them, you choose strychnine? My god. I’ve seen dogs die from strychnine and that’s not a method of death I’d ever willingly inflict on something.
(Reblogged from dendroica)

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    I FUCKING HATE HAAAARRPPPEERRRR
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    WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
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    FUCKING CANADIANS.
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    CARIBOU TOO NOOO NOT THE CARIBOU
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    Canada what are you doing
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    WTF Canada. I thought we’re supposed to be tree hugging, peace loving hippies! WTF is this..
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