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“…the trappers that have to expend fuel to haul all their equipment out are not seeing a return. The incentive for them is not there.” – Carson Callum, Manitoba Beef Producers.
Livestock, News

Does B.C. hold the answer to predator removal?

Local beef producers say Manitoba program lacks incentive for trappers

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Manitoba Beef Producers are looking to other jurisdictions for solutions to predation. It’s the second year in a row that MBP’s District 10 meeting in the Arborg area, held Oct. 19, featured a resolution to overhaul Manitoba’s Problem Predator Removal Program. The Interlake is a hotbed for predation. Northern reaches of the district have more
“As long as you can live with the animals, that’s great, but once you’ve got one or two generations that have been trained to feed on your animals, there is no other option with them.” – Mary Paziuk.
Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Big Bad Wolves: Beef producers call for support on problem predators

Producers say removal options are often too slow to arrive to be effective

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Manitoba’s beef producers want more resources to go after problem predators. In particular, according to farmers stepping up to the mic during the Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP) annual meeting in early February, there are issues with wolves. Interlake producer Glen Metner said that farmers in his area have individually lost dozens of head, sometimes despite the use
File photo of gray wolves howling in British Columbia. (Pac9012/iStock/Getty Images)
Livestock

U.S. lifts federal protections for gray wolf

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Reuters — The Trump administration in the U.S. said Thursday said it will lift Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf, arguing the species had been brought back successfully from the brink of extinction. The move gives states in the continuous United States the authority to manage their local wolf populations, including by allowing
This image was taken from a trail camera set up in the park.
Country Crossroads, Local news

Studying the wolves of Riding Mountain National Park

Scholar has been researching collared wolves in order to understand the ecology of the park

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Since the spring of 2016, Christina Prokopenko has been collecting data on the behaviour and population of wolves in Riding Mountain National Park (RMNP). Prokopenko, who is a Vanier Scholar completing her doctoral thesis out of Memorial University in Newfoundland, undertook the research to better understand the ecology of RMNP’s estimated 70 to 75 wolves
Manitoba beef producers say the government needs to tackle a growing predation problem from wolves and other large predators.
Beef cattle, Local news

Manitoba Beef Producers pushes for predation action

The 2018 Manitoba Beef Producers AGM saw multiple resolutions on the topic

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The Manitoba Beef Producers membership is getting fed up with a growing predation problem in parts of the province. Manitoba Beef Producers members heartily adopted all six resolutions on predation put forward this year at the AGM, Feb. 8-9 in Brandon, most aimed at prompting provincial action. Predation has been a long-standing issue between the
Wolves in Saskatchewan’s Prince Albert National Park in 2014. (Parks Canada photo, pc.gc.ca)
Beef cattle, Livestock

Saskatchewan to thin out wolf pack along treeline

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Aiming to prevent “wolf-livestock conflicts” in the region, Saskatchewan’s environment department will again offer a wolf hunting season along the provincial forest fringe starting Saturday. The wolf hunt, running from Oct. 15, 2016 through to March 31, 2017, is to be allowed in wildlife management zones 43 (Melfort, Tisdale), 47 (North Battleford, Turtleford), 48 (Preeceville,
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Shooting wolves backfires on livestock

Lethal control leads to more dead sheep and cattle

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The best way to control wolf populations and minimize livestock predation may be to stop shooting, trapping and poisoning them, Washington State University researchers say. A review of 25 years of data from lethal control programs from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services found that shooting and trapping the carnivores leads to more dead sheep
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French farmers cry wolf over sheep killings

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Paris | Reuters — French farmers, who regularly bring livestock into Paris to punctuate their protests, drove some 250 sheep into the shadow of the Eiffel Tower on Thursday to highlight an unusual concern — that a growing wolf population is killing their flocks. Wolves were reintroduced to France in the 1990s under an international
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Wyoming wolves to lose Endangered Species Act protection

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Grey wolves in Wyoming, the last still federally protected in the northern Rockies, will lose endangered species status at the end of September, opening them to unregulated killing in most of the state, the U.S. government said Aug. 31. The planned delisting of Wyoming’s estimated 350 wolves caps a steady progression of diminishing federal safeguards

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