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Strychnine for Christmas: Alberta gift to wolves, caribou & other wildlife

December 20, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Big Bad Wolf blamed for habitat loss due to global warming             EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada––Again this Christmas season,  Alberta Environment & Parks will welcome Santa’s reindeer by setting out strychnine. The strychnine will be not for Santa,  nor for the reindeer,  the North American variety of whom are called caribou,  but rather for the Big […]

Filed Under: Canada, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Predators, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Bob Weber, Carolyn Campbell, Cathy Ellis, Cliff Wallis, Dave Hervieux, Merritt Clifton, Patty Hajdu

Canada reviews “humaneness” of strychnine, sodium cyanide, & Compound 1080

February 23, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Health Canada consultation to include public comments             OTTAWA, Canada––Health Canada has extended until April 18,  2019 the public consultation period on a review of the “humaneness,”  when used to kill wolves,  coyotes,  and bears,  of the poisons strychnine,  sodium cyanide,  and sodium fluoroacetate,  better known as Compound 1080. The Canadian consultation on what it […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Canada, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Hunting & trapping, Organizations, Politics, The Americas, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arian Wallach, Bob Kerridge, Bob Weber, Justine M. Philip, Merritt Clifton, Ryan Brook

No more fireworks over grizzlies in Banff National Park

July 8, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Grizzly Bear #126 gets a good night’s sleep BANFF,  Alberta––Many of the estimated 8,000 human residents of the City of Banff and 25,000 Canada Day visitors to Banff National Park may have awakened the next day,  July 2,  2018,  with headsplitting hangovers. Unaccustomed outdoor exercise,  a hot late night,  a high pollen count,  and too […]

Filed Under: Canada, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Predators, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Bob Weber, Colleen Cassidy St. Clair, Corrie DiManno, Isabelle Dube, Jack Hauen, Mike Sawaya, Reg Bunyan, Stephen Herrero

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