‘It’s shameful, it’s horrifying’: B.C. conservationists call for end to controversial wolf cull
Every year the B.C. government hires contractors to kill hundreds of wolves to help save the dwindlingThe program started in 2015. The Ministry of Land, Water and Resource Stewardship told Global News Thursday that 280 wolves were killed this past winter and more than 1,700 have been killed since the program started.
“The wolf is not killed at the time, it’s kept alive and it’s later in the winter months when the wolf returns to the rest of its family that contracted shooters hired from the government will come in using aircraft to follow the signal on the collar. “And then that one wolf, it’s often called the ‘Judas Wolf’, would be left alive for the next year,” she said.
Olsen added the government is reluctant to bring about biodiversity legislation and poor landscape management in the province has led to the culling of wolves, which he said is a “terrible thing to think about.
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