The Pros And Cons Of The Wolf Population

Running across snowy fields of grass, hunting to live and survive, and being killed in the end. These are the wolves. They are being killed, caught, and murdered, but why? No one should be hunting for wolves or even killing them. Some of the reasons that they are dying off is from humans. The wolf population is in danger. Researchers have been studying wolves and wolf history. Many wolves are going extinct from people’s cultures and people’s beliefs about wolves."Over the centuries, the wolf has come to mean different things to different cultures. Revered as a deity, or reviled as a devil, the wolf has often paid with its life for crimes it did not commit." (“Why are Wolves endangered?”). Wolves were also known as pests and vermin's and were slaughtered for thousands of years. Also people called Bounty Hunters killed almost all the wolves in the United States. Most people think that is why there are hardly any left today. Researchers also have studied the human causes for the wolves going extinct. People with farms would kill off the wolves so there live stock wouldn't be harmed from the wolves. Most wolves were poisoned in the act. "Wolves need lots of land, away from humans, to live and raise their families. As our population has grown, the amount of

People have been slaughtering wolves, when the government began to strip the Endangered Species Act, "which transferred "management" to the states. As of April 2016, over 4,200 wolves had been slaughtered in just six states." (July). Since President Obama removed some of the wolf species from the endangered species list, wolves were killed in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Tiny remaining populations were clinging to existence in several spots. FWS reclassified wolves as "threatened." A wolf that was being studied was one of the first wolves to get killed after ESA protection was