Narwhal article highlights urgent need to protect wolves

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White wolf with some dark markings on its spine stands staring to the side in a full body shot with a blurred grey white background — Still from video by Steve Woods Photography.

A recent news article by our friends at The Narwhal looked at the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association’s Livestock Protection Program which allows trappers to kill entire wolf packs, including juveniles, if the predators kill, injure or harass even one cow or sheep.

The association paid trappers more than $500,000 for killing nearly 700 wolves in just over four years under a provincially funded program designed to reduce livestock predation, according to a document obtained from the province.

These numbers are just one way wolves in BC are killed. Raincoast is working towards an end to the recreational hunting of wolves, which sees over 1200 wolves killed annually. Take action!

An adorable grey brown wolf cub walks along muddy rocky area with a blurred green background.

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Only a few ‘1200 Wolf’ Tee shirts left

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We called them the 1200 Wolf Tee because more than 1200 wolves are killed in British Columbia every year from legal recreational hunting.

A beautiful image of a brown wolf standing poised center on a black wet rock looming out of the dark green forest behind.

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Register for tomorrow’s Wolf School episode

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From creation stories to Indigenous-led reintroduction and contemporary carnivore coexistence, Indigenous peoples have long shared space and time with, and story of, wolves.

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Take action to save wolves

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Join Raincoast’s efforts to stop the brutal slaughter of one of BC’s most iconic species. Wolves are increasingly blamed for the decline of prey populations, such as caribou. As such,…