Wolf haters have been in the news during the past several years and I have received so many complains about their activities that it´s time to stand up and tell my opinion. I totally support responsible management of wolf population. This means in my vocabulary allowing the wolves to decide their own population policies. We´re therefore simply not in a position right now to determine the fate of Wyoming or Yellowstone´s remaining wolf population. And a wolf population of 50,000 to 150,000 strong is being considered less of a problem than it´d have been if I had been writing this blog in the beginning of the 20th century. And since when has there been such a thing as a wolf population that´s out of control? Usually not in the USA since the world´s top 10 seriously out of control wolf populations are usually located in Russia or in the Middle - East. Certainly not in the USA or in Mexico. ´But what about the ducks´? will the typical wolf hater ask. ´Well ducks are rarely, if ever mentioned as casualties of out of control wolf populations´I say because I´ve not seen any pro wolf hunting group discuss duck or wetland animal casualties on their facebook web sites and I have only been to a few such websites as I find such groups´activities on Facebook to be distasteful.
I do agree nonetheless that wolves don´t speak English and you can´t read Immanuel Kant before a wolf and expect the wolf to understand every chapter. We need to keep approaxing wolves from a realistic perspective and consequently the right to vote is a recent add to the controversy of managing wolf populations. In other words - should we allow wolf haters to continue to exercise the right to vote? It´s not easy to simply say yes or no to such a controversial question and on youtube people have told me that if you take the right to vote away from wolf haters you´ll take it away from everybody else. Once I realized that I seriously understood how sensitive the right to vote actually is, such as my right to vote in my native Iceland. And all wolf haters are simply wrong in saying that removing wolves from places where they have already been present in the ancient past is going to help restore balance in nature. I therefore support that wolves manage their own populations in the countries where they are in the best position to do.
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