The Narwhal https://thenarwhal.ca Deep Dives, Cold Facts, & Pointed Commentary en-US Copyright 2026 The Narwhal hourly 1 Tahltan president explains why his nation is paying members to hunt bears and wolves in northwest B.C. https://thenarwhal.ca/tahltan-bc-bears-wolves-wildlife-management/ Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:33:34 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=22783 Provincial ban on grizzly bear trophy hunt has led to a boom in the predator population and crashing ungulate populations, threatening food security, Tahltan Central Government President Chad Day tells The Narwhal Matt Simmons Profile B.C. bears caribou Indigenous wildlife wolves Chad Day Thaltan Territory Carol Linnitt The Narwhal B.C. Cattlemen’s Association dispatches trappers to kill wolves under provincially funded program https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-cattlemens-association-livestock-wolves/ Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:10:47 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=22709 Trappers collected more than $500,000 for killing nearly 700 wolves over past four years — numbers wolf advocates call ‘staggering, unbelievable’ Larry Pynn News B.C. B.C. Cattlemen’s Association wildlife wolves Wolf How to stop trophy hunting? Buy up all the licences https://thenarwhal.ca/how-to-stop-trophy-hunting-buy-up-all-the-licences/ Thu, 25 Jul 2019 18:13:29 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=12942 A B.C. conservation group is on a mission to purchase all the commercial hunting licences in the Great Bear Rainforest, where animals like black bears, wolves and cougars can still legally be killed as trophies. The focus right now is the Kitlope, a breathtaking area home to the world’s largest intact area of coastal temperate rainforest  Judith Lavoie News bears cougars great bear rainforest Kitlope trophy hunting wolves A coastal wolf. Photo: Klaus Pommerenke Two Banff National Park wolf packs likely decimated by trappers https://thenarwhal.ca/two-banff-national-park-wolf-packs-likely-decimated-by-trapping/ Fri, 22 Feb 2019 19:03:23 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=10096 ‘There’s a really high likelihood that the pack is just gone altogether’ Sharon J. Riley Investigation Alberta Banff National Park trapping wildlife wolves Wild wolves, Banff National Park B.C. Plans to Cull Wolves for Next Decade While Failing to Protect Caribou Habitat From Industry https://thenarwhal.ca/b-c-plans-cull-wolves-next-decade-while-failing-protect-caribou-habitat-industry/ Thu, 21 May 2015 16:27:07 +0000 http://localhost.com/narwhal/2015/05/21/b-c-plans-cull-wolves-next-decade-while-failing-protect-caribou-habitat-industry/ Carol Linnitt News bc wolf cull Biological Conservation caribou Chris Johnson conservation extinction IMPACTS Industry Paul Paquet Raincoast Conservation Foundation Robert Serrouya Roland Willson Site C dam West Moberly First Nation wolf cull wolves Wolves Scapegoated While Alberta Government Sells Off Endangered Caribou Habitat https://thenarwhal.ca/wolves-scapegoated-while-alberta-sells-off-endangered-caribou-habitat/ Wed, 08 Apr 2015 18:08:05 +0000 http://localhost.com/narwhal/2015/04/08/wolves-scapegoated-while-alberta-sells-off-endangered-caribou-habitat/ Carol Linnitt Alberta caribou caribou habitat conservation ESRD leases Mark Hebblewhite oil and gas oilsands Paul Paquet Scott Nielsen tar sands wolf cull wolves Oilsands Companies Scramble to Reclaim Seismic Lines in Endangered Caribou Habitat https://thenarwhal.ca/oilsands-companies-scramble-reclaim-seismic-lines-endangered-caribou-habitat/ Wed, 01 Apr 2015 19:33:46 +0000 http://localhost.com/narwhal/2015/04/01/oilsands-companies-scramble-reclaim-seismic-lines-endangered-caribou-habitat/ Carol Linnitt Alberta Wilderness Association Algar Historic Restoration Project Amit Saxena caribou caribou habitat Carolyn Campbell conocophillips COSIA Devon Energy Duncan MacDonnell endangered ESRD Kris Geekie leases oilsands restoration Scott Nielsen seismic lines shell Statoil tar sands wolf cull wolves