Green Options

The deaths of these two, collared wolves in particular–by unnatural causes (termed “harvested” wolves)–pose a problem for the park’s five year old Wolf Project, which was funded in part by the National Science Foundation, and meant to be a unique, long-term study of these secretive animals. “Death by hunting” is not yet an official data category for the study. Much of the data collected so far on these wolves may not be usable any more since their unnatural deaths did [...]

One mountain lion in the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona is single-handedly hunting the refuge’s endangered big horn sheep population to extinction.

The puma has already culled at least 15 sheep since last February, a remarkable pace which, if continued, would total 37 deaths by the end of the year. By comparison, the estimated annual yearling recruitment from the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge bighorn sheep herd is only 39 animals.