GN increases payouts to hunters for wolf samples
Wolf overpopulation puts dwindling caribou herds at risk, says Environment Department
Wolf overpopulation across northern Canada is impacting dwindling caribou herds, the GN said Thursday in an announcement of higher payouts for wolf samples. (File photo)
The Nunavut government is doling out more cash for wolves.
The Department of Environment announced Thursday it’s increasing payment to $900 for each wolf harvested within the Bluenose-East and Dolphin-Union herd ranges, because those herds are declining.
Samples collected from other parts of Nunavut will net $500, up from the previous rate of $300.
“Enhanced wolf management supports the recovery of declining caribou herds,” states a news release from the department.
Hunters are asked to submit harvested wolf skulls or other requested samples.
The GN launched the program in 2018 in the Kitikmeot region and since then it has been expanded across the territory.
Wait till green see this
The GN could have put this in effect long ago and it could have had a bigger impact. The wolf numbers have been going down slowly naturally anyways.
Wolf population continues to be average and healthy every year despite how many wolves taken by the wild west wolf hunters going into the Nwt and clear across the Bathurst caribou range during the winter right into the spring melt when travel is no longer viable by snowmachines for every wolf taken a couple more are born every season.
So that makes it okay?
That may make a bit of a difference for the caribou MWT has had this going right when the wolf management began and started right off the bat with a 1200 dollar bounty nwt rocks and Nunavut still classical.
It time GN wake up been telling them caribou number going low from wolves good for harvesters
Wildlife watch, where have you been. It’s the mines that are driving the caribou numbers down, leave the wolves alone.
easy to blame the mines and no the self management practices that are in IQ principles, cant take accountability gotta blame someone else
Essentially we are declaring war on an apex predator to make room for greater human harvesting, pretending the whole while that the ‘wolf’ is the real problem when it is not.
You got it. The book ‘Never Cry Wolf’ says it all. Worth the read for all commenters here!
Are you guys buying wolf skins too? I have a wolf skin that I put away in the freezer and needs to be cleaned.
Wolves and caribou co-existed for 10,000 years before European settlers. Humans are always the problem.
Please tell us how are the conquerors from Europe to blame for this one?
Exact same thing as blaming the mines, no thought put into it, just want to play the blame game and not they fact that 10,000 years ago inuit travelled by foot or dog team and werent hunting with rifles that could take a caribou out from half a mile away. and now travelling by snowmobile and ATV’s make it so much easier to harvest
He said good idea