Wildlife, Conservation & Travel
Majestic Wolves
The wolf has been much maligned by many people, often misunderstood this wonderful animal seen in the wild continues to be under threat.
Erosion of habitat is part of the story, but unfortunately both livestock owners and hunters continue to persecute and eradicate wolves both in North American states as well as in other countries around the world.
It is understandable that you cannot have wildlife in unmanaged numbers when the humans over population continues to increase unchecked. No control on populations mean that wildlife ever increasingly comes under pressure.
Livestock owners fear the wolf and as they protect their livelyhood unless there is a satisfactory compensation program they will want to take revenge on the wolf, sometimes when it is not even the wolf that commited the attack.
The wolf has been on the endangered species list in North American for some time but politicians sometimes do not view wildlife as a natural situation that needs protection and therefore hunting and poaching also takes it's toll on the wolf as well as the encroachment of their territory.
I do not advocate a situation where wildlife goes unchecked but the wolf has every much right as we do to live on this planet.
A world without wolves would be a sadder place for us all, I for one would miss them.
