Canada’s wolf cull

Mark Carwardine is absolutely right about the stupid obsession that Canadians have with hunting (My Way of Thinking, November 2019). I spent a year teaching in Canada years ago, and the boys would all have guns. They could drive when very young and sometimes came to school with a dead animal on the front. I had hoped that they, as a nation, had grown out of it as they have a good (but declining) reputation as world players in other areas of life. Vivienne Booth, via email

Spot-on analysis of plans to cull up to 1,000 wolves in British Columbia by Mark. Another example of politics getting in the way of establishing balanced ecosystems.

Gordon Eaglesham, via Twitter

I am 100 per cent behind Mark on the wolf cull in Canada. Wolves are amazing creatures and could teach us all a thing or two about living together!

It beggars belief that wolves are always blamed for everything and culled. It has been shown in Yellowstone how nature has been restored just by the presence of two main packs. I do appreciate farmer concerns, but if we stopped invading the wolves’ land by destroying our own it wouldn’t be a problem.

But, as Mark says, economics comes before the environment for so many of those in power. If this senseless killing is allowed to continue, they will be destroyed as a species and that breaks my heart.

I have seen wolves in Norway and spent time with a semitame pack in a wildlife park near Tromsø. They are so special and loving, I could have stayed there forever.

Mandy Gage, via email