Caribou Moved

https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/...islands-815061

Nine members of one of the last surviving caribou herds in the Lake Superior region are roaming in some unfamiliar but safer territory this week. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has just completed the transfer of eight cows and one bull from Michipicoten Island to the Slate Islands offshore from Terrace Bay. The three-day operation concluded on Monday.

So shooting the wolves is out of the question? I guess, it will be politically correct, for them to starve to death.

Yes, a lot at play here and shooting/trapping the wolves just didn't make the cut. I understand it was an option but the backlash would have been too great.

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Originally Posted by jim

So shooting the wolves is out of the question? I guess, it will be politically correct, for them to starve to death.

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yep could have saved many more of the caribou , if they had of looked after the orignal 4 wolves , instead of putting collars on them , now the last get to starve after they kill each other once the remaining caribou are depleted

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Originally Posted by fratri

Yes, a lot at play here and shooting/trapping the wolves just didn't make the cut. I understand it was an option but the backlash would have been too great.

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Frank it’s time we go back to managing wildlife with tried and true science instead of the public’s emotion , funny how so many put wolves on a pedestal and worship them, the one good thing that’s came of this deal is straight up fact about what unregulated predators will do to prey species , it goes to show the true wild peak and valley swings nature takes and that balance of nature is a myth

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Originally Posted by trappermatt

Frank it’s time we go back to managing wildlife with tried and true science instead of the public’s emotion , funny how so many put wolves on a pedestal and worship them

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I hear you but if the people making up the rules listen to the people that keep them in power, it will never change.

It's just mind boggling that a healthy herd of successfully surviving caribou would be allowed to be wasted in such a fashion! After all the doomsday reports of how endangered they are and our managers allowed this to happen. And it was not disease or a sudden disaster, like a flood or something. This was a 4 year predation problem that managers were too gutless to address. Also I can't seem to understand why the first nations in that area just didn't go in with or without any MNR blessing and just take care of it. This was a guaranteed healthy, sustainable resource for their sustenance needs and was also seed stock for any transplants to help caribou in other parts of the province. 9 animals over 3 days! REALLY? I sure hope the bull isn't sterile!

MNR - Shame on you!

another example of the Mis-management at the MNR,,,an absolute shame this gutless organization now is

Too little to late IMO. An open contract offer for bids to terminate the wolves back in the spring time would have save more lives

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Originally Posted by canadaman30

Too little to late IMO. An open contract offer for bids to terminate the wolves back in the spring time would have save more lives

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not to mention hundreds of thousands of dollars that could be better spent elsewhere. I can't imagine this plan was cheap.

edit: just read in the other thread that the first nations requested the wolves be moved using non-lethal methods. god forbid the MNR does anything against the will of the first nations. Still a stupid decision.