Trappers on Crown land were almost entirely prohibited from trapping wolverines, and less prohibitively lynx, river otters and fishers, until recently – but Todd Loewen’s decision means it’s now open season on all four
Sporting a radio collar, a Canada lynx jumps through the two-foot drifts of snow as the animal is released into the Rio Grande National Forest near Creede, Colo., on April 19, 2005. Alberta Forestry Minister Todd Loewen says the decision to lift limits on trapping and harvesting for animals like wolverines is being done to get more data on how many there are.
One of the most recent population estimates for wolverines in Alberta, completed in 2003, estimated fewer than 1,000 breeding ones left in the province. Conservationist Ruiping Luo, with the Alberta Wilderness Association, says she thinks the government should find a way to collect the data without killing or harvesting the animals.
“We know that as biodiversity is lost, we lose the health of that ecosystem, and as the health of that ecosystem is lost, we lose a lot of the ecosystem services,” she said.
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