A controversial wolf cull in B.C. has been extended for another five years, according to the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development.
The province’s “aerial wolf reduction program” was quietly renewed beginning in the winter of 2021-22 and will target the Kootenay, Cariboo, Omineca, Skeena and Peace regions of B.C.
Aerial wolf reduction involves the shooting of wolves from a helicopter, which the province describes as the most effective and humane way to reduce wolf populations in remote areas.
The cull was put in place in 2015 in an effort to prevent the further decline of caribou populations. At the time, some animal
