Controversial wolf culls have helped boost numbers of threatened Southern mountain caribou: study

For decades, researchers have been sounding the alarm about southern mountain caribou, a type of woodland caribou that traditionally ranged through parts of B.C. and Alberta and into Washington and Idaho.As human settlement and industry expanded, the animals’ habitat dwindled, pushing some herds to extinction and leaving others on the brink. In response, governments, conservation groups and First Nations came up with strategies to save them, ranging from killing wolves, which prey on caribou, to setting up pens to protect female caribou and their newborn calves until the calves were more likely to survive in the wild.