via Paul Watson: Crying Wolf! A Norwegian newspaper recently asked me why I care about whales but not about wolves and asked me to comment on the killing off of the wolves of Norway. In 1984 I founded the organization Friends of the Wolf to oppose aerial shooting of wolves in British Columbia. I do care about wolves and all other species threatened by humanity but I also recognize that the strength of any movement is in diversity. There are individuals and groups opposing the slaughter of wolves. One person cant be everywhere. There are passionate defenders of wolves working to protect wolves and intend of asking me why Im not actively defending wolves they should be asking the people who are engaged with defending wolves to comment on what they are doing. One thing that I am doing for the wolves to to contribute to an organization that I was once a field correspondent for and that is Defenders of Wildlife. The international chair of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is Farley Mowat, the author of Never Cry Wolf!. This book more than any other changed the attitudes of millions of people regarding wolves. Be it whales or wolves or sharks or bears, all conservationists care but we cannot each be everywhere for everything. But we can be each involved with specific concerns that together collectively form a movement to protect and defend all wildlife everywhere. This is the English translation of the article: I have also worked in Africa to help protect elephants and in Quebec to help caribou. In order to be more effective I set up Sea Shepherd to focus on marine wildlife, everything from plankton to whales. This does not mean I care more for whales than wolves, it is simply a matter of focusing on issues that I can address. I can¹t take on every issue but there are many thousands of people and organizations that are addressing the threats to numerous other species including the wolf. I support Defenders of Wildlife in Washington D.C. A they have wolves as a priority. The program to eradicate the wolf is ecologically ignorant and is as destructive for the world as the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. All species are interdependent and the strength of an ec0-system lies in diversity. These are the two most important laws of ecology. A wolf eradication program is a crime against nature and therefore a crime against humanity. We do what we do with the resources we have to the best of our ability and we encourage diversity within the conservation movement.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:15:00 +0000