Image: Marc Olivier Jodoin/Unsplash “If conservation only preserves wildlife numbers and bodies without tending to wildlife minds and societies, then it will fail.” Dr. Gay Bradshaw in Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Aretress —...
Recent Essays
Claiming scientific impartiality in wildlife management is an illusion. Preferences, biases, and emotions inform the mindsets of all the actors, regardless of their position. The question is not who is driven by objective science and who is not, but rather whose values and beliefs deserve greater consideration.
We are numb to numbers. In the aftermath of a tragedy, it is the fate of the individual not the scale of suffering that elicits compassion and mobilizes us into action.
Black bears can be both a thrilling and feared presence in urban neighbourhoods. In the vast majority of cases, the risk that they pose to the public does not warrant lethal management.
Current conservation policies are driven by irrational fears, reluctance to inconvenience ourselves in co-existence with nature, and resistance to challenging the status quo.
In British Columbia, a war on wildlife never ends; cruelty goes on, unabated. We cannot unshackle ourselves from the self-centered belief system that destines us to view nature as a resource subordinate to our needs.
Evil in man’s heart hasn’t been eradicated by the ‘civilizing process’. Wildlife killing contests offer a horrific, publicly sanctioned outlet for satiating this lingering savagery.