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read this just out from coyotewatchcanada.
they're not happy with the EBR proposal and want all of Ontario.
http://coyotewatchcanada.com/alert-o...ote-slaughter/
ALERT: Ontario Plans to allow rare wolf killing by justifying status quo coyote slaughter
TORONTO, CANADA – (Aug 12 2016). On Friday July 22, the Ontario government announced plans to allow hunters and trappers to kill at-risk Algonquin wolves across the majority of their range. The plan requires an erosion of the automatic protection that was said to be afforded by the province’s Endangered Species Act (ESA) following the wolves’ up-listing to Threatened status on June 15th 2016.
Over 165,000 people from around the world have attended the “Public Wolf Howls” in Algonquin Provincial Park for a chance to hear the wolves in the only area where they are fully protected. As few as 154 mature animals, or 65% of the global population, inhabit Ontario.
A large coalition of organizations (see Addendum) has gathered together to call for full protection of Algonquin wolves across their entire range. Algonquin wolves are sparsely distributed across Central Ontario. The groups are urging the public to comment on 2 government proposals (EBR #012-8104 & EBR #012-8105) before Aug 22nd 2016 to ensure the ESA is used to recover the Algonquin wolf population as intended. The coalition stresses the need to extend protection to eastern coyotes and their hybrids, neither of which can be differentiated from Algonquin wolves without a genetic test.
Proposal #012-8104 will limit the ban on wolf and coyote hunting and trapping to three disconnected “core” areas around 3 other provincial parks that currently allow trapping. These closures are too small to support family-based Algonquin wolf packs, reduce coyote interbreeding or protect wide-ranging wolves, which naturally disperse to find new territory and mates in surrounding areas.
Remarks Lesley Sampson, Executive Director of Coyote Watch Canada, “Full hunting and trapping season closures for both species are crucial for recovering these rare wolves and essential for conserving intact, family-based eastern coyote populations.”
“Of the radio-collared Algonquin wolves that dispersed from Algonquin Park’s protection, 80% were killed by hunters or trappers within 1 year,” says Sadie Parr, Executive Director of Wolf Awareness Inc. “It is because of hunting and trapping that so few wolves have been found outside of the “core” areas the government has proposed to protect.”
Proposal #012-8105 will erode the ESA to exempt hunters and trappers from provisions that would otherwise prohibit them from killing, harming and harassing Algonquin wolves. This exemption will apply in all areas outside of the three new closures proposed in #012-8104 and existing closures in and around Algonquin Park.
“Ontario is transparently prioritizing a minority of people who profit from the slaughter of wolves and coyotes over the recovery of a species at risk,” says Hannah Barron, Director of Wildlife Conservation Campaigns for Earthroots. “It is appalling that the government would continue to ignore their own research showing that without more extensive protection from hunting and trapping, the Algonquin wolf population will not recover.”
“These proposals are marketed to the public as a step in the right direction while we wait for the Recovery Strategy now mandated by the Endangered Species Act,” adds John McDonnell, Executive Director of CPAWS-OV. “However, a Management Plan, required when the wolves were still listed as Special Concern, has been overdue since 2008. We cannot wait forever.”
For further details, please contact:
Hannah Barron, Director of Wildlife Conservation Campaigns, Earthroots
(647) 567-8337
[email protected]
Sadie Parr, Executive Director, Wolf Awareness Inc.
(250) 272-4695
[email protected]
Lesley Sampson, Executive Director, Coyote Watch Canada
(905) 931-2610
[email protected]
John McDonnell, Executive Director, CPAWS-Ottawa Valley
(819) 778-3355
[email protected]
The coalition includes the following organizations:
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Have to love untruths, half truths, outright bs, and politics.
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Can I get the DNA difference.
Are the special ones breeding with the not so special.
The only way to save. The special ones is to stop the not so special from breeding. Now how we gunna do that.
Spring bear.
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no one seems to be happy!
I think they should release a few hundred Boreal greys (from Alberta or Alaska where they grow huge) and sick em on all the coyotes and half-breeds...
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In Yellowstone where they reintroduced Greys, that's kinda what has happened. There they compete and it's not going well for coyotes. Here?
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I wondered in the other thread, if part of the reason behind this given its on the heals of the spring bear hunt (and adjustment to tag requirements for wolves/coyotes) this might have been a bone to mollify them. Looks ever so slightly possible now.
Glen, go here. This is possibly the most concise and honest response to all of this. There are more than just a couple huge red flags.
This was new to me, and beyond just the research out Princeton which calls a few things into question.
No wonder the MNR and others keep this under the rug.
Also it is important to note that in the 1950’s and 60’s the Lands and Forest (called MNRF today) was trying to eradicate wolves in these and other areas of the Province with poison and bounties for hunters and trappers. Then in the later 50”s and 60’s there was an individual by the name of Mr. Pimlott who conducted documented research inside Algonquin Park.
He was breeding grey wolves with coyotes inside the park in pens and releasing them.
This is supported by documented research. There are also Parks Staff and Lands and Forest employees still living who remember picking up dead deer carcasses on local roads to feed captive wolves and coyote for this project.. This may have been the origin of the hybridization that is occurring with Grey wolves, coyotes and Algonquin/Eastern Wolves.
http://media.wix.com/ugd/eedf40_a01f...2016%20(1).doc
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Jben, that's crazy... I've heard of Pimlott.. he's mentioned a lot in Meech books and Theberge... I have to admit that this theory seems pretty farfetched... never heard about it and I wonder why they would do that???
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This pretty much confirms what Werner has been stating - that a true grey wolf existed in the park and surrounding in the first half of the 20th C.
"Although wolf harvest in the first half of the 20th century presumably impacted the population size and altered the original genetic makeup of wolves within the park, the timing of the research culls in the mid-1960s is important because it occurred at a time when coyotes were becoming well established in the area. Prior to the 1960s, introgression from coyotes may have occurred, but was likely limited because the first coyote confirmed in southern Ontario was recorded in Thedford, Lambton County in 1919 (Nowak 1979) and densities near APP would have been relatively low until the beginning of the 1960s when coyote populations expanded rapidly north, east, and south (Moore and Parker 1992 in response to new habitat made available through land clearing and wolf extirpation (Kyle et al. 2006; Kays et al. 2010). Estimates of coyote abundance in Wildlife Management Unit 64B (Fig. 2) southeast of APP suggest a trend of increased density (Fig. 3). Therefore, there was presumably limited potential for coyote introgression into APP wolves during the first half of the 20th century, [COLOR=#ff0000][COLOR=#ff0000]although immigration of wolf-like animals, either gray wolf–eastern wolf hybrids from northeastern Ontario or other Algonquin-type animals living in the park periphery, was likely common at the time."
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3297175/)
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There has already been a study determining only one genetic foot print for all wolves in Ontario and many have coyote DNA. Why won't our Liebral government use this scientific evidence? Just love to p!55 away our tax dollars and limit our use of natural resources!
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I would like to thank everyone for the truth.
The problem I see with the coyote mixed animals is they don't have much limiting their population density.
When they are many other animals get reduced to a low level.
Red fox are a nice looking animal.
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I had never, ever heard even a whisper of someone conducting a cross breeding program in or near the park. Until I read that Splaker. Given they assert its documented, and that there are still people alive to verify it. Well the appropriate dosage of salt gets reduced.
it would help "explain" some things that started occurring in the 60s, and especially the 70s.
Assuming its for real. No wonder it's ever mentioned, anywhere and buried never to see the light of day.
Ontdain.
Thats the research out of Princeton. Why might that be important? Because if "wolves" aren't "wolves"....well it "could" potentially mean the end of protected status under the ESA here and in the U.S. For a lot of "wolves" that aren't "wolves".
easiest solution.
move the goal post, make a new species of "wolf". Yep, very curious timing all of this.....including the new name.
