Wolves and Human Well-being: Ecological and Public Health Concerns
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM Michael W. Fox, DSc, PhD, BVetMed, MRCVS
March 2019

Wolves play an integral role in maintaining the health and biodiversity of wildlife and ecosystems, and indirectly, livestock and public health. Current federal and state government initiatives, backed by diverse vested interests, are continuing to reduce the nation’s existing wolf population which is contrary to the directives of sound science, reason and the public interest in “re-wilding” public lands and designated wilderness areas throughout the wolf’s original range.

Image by Jim Robertson, author of Exposing the Big Game: Living Targets of a Dying Sport

Synopsis

Wolves play an integral role in maintaining the health and biodiversity of wildlife and ecosystems, and indirectly, livestock and public health.Recognition of this role, long acknowledged by native American Indians as “the good medicine of the wolf” calls for greater respect, protection and incresed numbers of wolves in appropriate habitats across North America; and in recognition of their sentience and family bonds, abolition of commercial and recreational trapping, snaring and shooting.

Current federal and state government initiatives, backed by diverse vested interests, are continuing to reduce the nation’s existing wolf population which is contrary to the directives of sound science, reason and the public interest in “re-wilding” public lands and designated wilderness areas throughout the wolf’s original range.

The opening of public lands for private use, from logging and mining to ranching and other financially-driven incursions calls for vigilant conservation science and praxis, especially considering the adverse consequences of climate change, by responsible state and federal authorities.

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