Canada poisons wolves to build more tar sands

[auroraglacialis]

ADVOCACY: Don’t Kill Wolves for TAR SANDS!

To make up for the fact that rapid tar sands oil mining is threatening caribou herds by destroying vast swaths of forest habitat in Alberta, the Canadian government has called for killing thousands of wolves.

If Alberta Canada’s tar sands oil fields are fully developed, an area of boreal rainforest the size of Florida will be eviscerated, leaving in its wake giant ponds of toxic wastewater.

It’s obvious why this would pose a massive threat to all wildlife species who reside there, including birds, wolves, woodland caribou and the iconic spirit bear. But instead of preserving the habitat caribou need for their survival, the Canadian government’s answer is to blaze ahead with tar sands oil extraction, and kill thousands of wolves who would naturally prey on the caribou. A paper released this week by the National Wildlife Federation reports that The Ministry of the Environment’s plan calls for aerial shooting, and poisoning with bait laced with strychnine — a particularly painful type of poison.

But I guess "we" "need" the "oil" from the tar sands and of course then wildlife has to be "managed". ! - Translation is: The oil companies want to make a lot of money selling dirty oil and dont care that whole landscapes are destroyed for that and then they blame the wolves and shoot them.

There is a petition by the way, if you believe in these...