http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/science/legal-hunting-poaching-wolves.html
(Leaving in a country that gives hunters tax-payers money, and being fed this "bs line" too, I'm glad to see it being questioned. Scandinavian poaching of wolves, bears, linx, wolverines and eagles goes virtually unpunished - infact it's welcomed by a large portion of the population out in the sticks.)
... the authors of a new study of wolves, published Wednesday, say their findings offer the first quantitative evidence that government authorization of any legal killing of wolves appears to increase illegal killing.
The study looked at wolves in Wisconsin and Michigan, states where the animals have at different times been placed under federal protection, removed from the endangered species list or relisted after court challenges.
The federal flip-flopping, the researchers said, provided a natural experiment, allowing them to study the effects of policies that at points gave states the authority to kill, or “cull,” wolves suspected to have damaged property or threatened pets or humans.
During those periods, the researchers said, they found that poaching increased, suggesting that “liberalizing wolf culling may have sent a negative message about the value of wolves or that poaching prohibitions would not be enforced.”
The study, by Adrian Treves of the University of Wisconsin and Guillaume Chapron of the Swedish University of Agricultural Science, appears in the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Study at Blood does not buy goodwill: allowing culling increases poaching of a large carnivore | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences
(Leaving in a country that gives hunters tax-payers money, and being fed this "bs line" too, I'm glad to see it being questioned. Scandinavian poaching of wolves, bears, linx, wolverines and eagles goes virtually unpunished - infact it's welcomed by a large portion of the population out in the sticks.)
... the authors of a new study of wolves, published Wednesday, say their findings offer the first quantitative evidence that government authorization of any legal killing of wolves appears to increase illegal killing.
The study looked at wolves in Wisconsin and Michigan, states where the animals have at different times been placed under federal protection, removed from the endangered species list or relisted after court challenges.
The federal flip-flopping, the researchers said, provided a natural experiment, allowing them to study the effects of policies that at points gave states the authority to kill, or “cull,” wolves suspected to have damaged property or threatened pets or humans.
During those periods, the researchers said, they found that poaching increased, suggesting that “liberalizing wolf culling may have sent a negative message about the value of wolves or that poaching prohibitions would not be enforced.”
The study, by Adrian Treves of the University of Wisconsin and Guillaume Chapron of the Swedish University of Agricultural Science, appears in the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Study at Blood does not buy goodwill: allowing culling increases poaching of a large carnivore | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences
