Excellent article. The knee-jerk reaction to managing wolf populations is just that and has nothing to do with reality and scientific data. As mentioned, apex predators are essential for a healthy and balanced ecosystem. Research in the US has shown that eradication efforts to control populations are unsuccessful because breeding females tend to have more pups to make up for the shortfall. If it wasn’t such a knee-jerk issue, the EU’s decision makers should look to the exhaustive research on the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone.
Excellent article. The knee-jerk reaction to managing wolf populations is just that and has nothing to do with reality and scientific data. As mentioned, apex predators are essential for a healthy and balanced ecosystem. Research in the US has shown that eradication efforts to control populations are unsuccessful because breeding females tend to have more pups to make up for the shortfall. If it wasn’t such a knee-jerk issue, the EU’s decision makers should look to the exhaustive research on the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone.
Perhaps weapon-carrying Homo sapiens sapiens should be downgraded to Appendix III, or better yet, not protected at all.