What do you think?
- In a hard decision, what matters more: good science or good politics? Why?
- How can science heal, rather than deepen, the urban-rural divide on issues like this one?
- If you were a wildlife manager, what decision would you make? Stick with the status quo and manage for the health of wildlife populations? Or would you embrace compassionate conservation and place a higher value on the individual?
- If we had to choose, what is the better option? More economic development and fewer parks and recreational opportunities? Or more protected areas and recreational opportunities, but less economic development? Why?
- How would you turn the kaleidoscope and find a better solution?
This story in the media
How lynx and wolf reintroductions to Britain could be shaped by preconceptions and psychology
Bias: Centre
Source: The Conversation
File Type: Essay
Overview: How lynx...
Killing owls to save owls: the US wildlife plan that sparked an ‘ethical dilemma’
Bias: Centre
Source: The Guardian
File Type: Essay
Overview: Killing owls...
‘We had to make a choice’: Wildlife Haven no longer treating certain species
Bias: none
Source: CTV News
File Type: Article
Overview: \'We had...
Task
- Option One: Create a simple infographic that highlights what you've learned so far in this story.
- Option Two: Sketch/map your answer to the question: does one individual matter?
Terms & Concepts
- Boreal Forest
- Environmental Regulation
- Regulatory Process
- Proportional Electoral System
- Veto
- First-Past-the-Post Electoral System
- Voting Blocs
- Carbon Tax
- Riding
- Compassionate Conservation
- Code of Ethics
- Buffer Zone
- Wildlife Corridors
- Habitat Loss
- Coexistence
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- Improving Wildlife Management and Habitat Conservation in British Columbia
- Proposal to simplify and align provincial white-tailed deer hunting seasons
- Proposal to simplify and align provincial white-tailed deer hunting seasons: Comments
- Decline In Hunters Threatens How U.S. Pays For Conservation
- How Hunting Assists Species Conservation and Management
- We’ve long led the charge to protect our hunting heritage against attack: NRA
- What Percentage of Americans Own Guns?
- Americans Have More Guns Than Anywhere Else in the World and They Keep Buying More
- Firearms, Accidental Deaths, Suicides and Violent Crime: An Updated Review of the Literature with Special Reference to the Canadian Situation
- Licensed Hunting and Trapping in Canada: Report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development
- Ducks Unlimited: Are Waterfowl Migrations Changing?
- Canadian Wildlife Federation
- Hunting & Fishing License Sales and the Wildlife & Sport Restoration Trust Funds
- Canada Nature Fund
- Government of Canada announces $340 million to support Indigenous-led conservation
- Why is a vote in rural B.C. worth more than a vote in Vancouver?
- North American Model of Wildlife Conservation gets a cultural refresh
- Christy Clark shrugs off urban roots for rural crowds
- Predator Reduction Survey
- Boreal Caribou Protection and Recovery
- Input sought on British Columbia's Draft Boreal Caribou Protection and Recovery Plan
- Wildlife Management and the Vision for Recreational Hunting engagement
- The World's Best Model for Wildlife
- Political Staffers Weigh In: 10 tips for reaching your MP
- How to write your MP
- Contemporary Canadian Govt. & Politics: Getting Involved in Government and Politics
- Participate: The House of Commons is committed to fostering Canadians’ participation in the democratic process and to providing access to the work of Members, both in the Chamber and in committees.
- Compassionate Conservation Clashes With Conservation Biology: Should Empathy, Compassion, and Deontological Moral Principles Drive Conservation Practice?
- Indigenizing the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
- Impact of censusing and research on wildlife populations
- Why Hunting has Defined the North American Model for Wildlife Conservation
- Why the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is Problematic for Modern Wildlife Management
- Environmental Scientists Call North American Model of Wildlife Conservation Flawed
- The Existing Critique of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
- Compassionate Conservation: A Paradigm Shift for Wildlife Management in Australasia
- Compassion as a Practical and Evolved Ethic for Conservation
- Heavily hunted wolves more stressed, study says
- Wolf cull will not save threatened Canadian caribou
- An alternative to wolf control to save endangered caribou
- Ethics of Wildlife Management and Conservation: What Should We Try to Protect?
- Aligning Coyote and Human Welfare
- Recognizing animal personhood in compassionate conservation
- Fact vs Opinion
- The elements of journalism
- Compassionate conservation: Concept and applications
- Can conservation be compassionate?
- Crown Land
- Federal Crown Land
- Predator Buffer Zones
- Buffer Zones as a Conservation Strategy
- Curiosity killed the wolf – and fuelled an anti-hunting petition in Canada
- Banff National Park wolves killed by trappers
- The Pipestone Wolves: The Rise and Fall of a Wolf Family
- A Canadian Province Killed 463 Wolves for No Good Reason
- A Philosophical Critique of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation