Category: Wolf culls in crease poaching according to a new study

According to Blood does not buy goodwill: allowing culling increases poaching of a large carnivore Guillaume Chapron, Adrian Treves Published 11 May 2016.   "We present the first quantitative evaluation of the hypothesis that liberalizing culling will reduce poaching and improve population status of an endangered carnivore. We show that allowing wolf (Canis lupus) culling was …

Continue reading "New study shows that allowing wolf (Canis lupus) culling was substantially more likely to increase poaching than reduce it. "