Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Centre

I am pleased that the Silent River Benevolent Foundation has voted to include the Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Centre as an initiative that is worthy of funding this year. Our annual Pandamnoium fundraiser has seen a drop in engagement from our students these past few years and so I see this new initiative as a real opportunity for us to help all our initiatives benefit from added engagement.

Wolves are a keystone species. They are integral for maintaining and preventing an ecosystem from collapsing or dramatically changing. This fact played out in Yellowstone Park when wolves were eradicated and then reintroduced. Currently there is a wolf cull going on in British Columbia, ostensibly to protect caribou. It is well proven that habitat quality is the most important component of caribou population recovery yet rather than protecting the caribou habitat from human activities like logging, the BC government is going after the wolves.

Nature always balances itself. Typically it is man who throws things askew, putting species at risk and even driving them to extinction. It is an exercise in futility if we think imposing our control is going to fix a problem that was caused by us imposing our control. Hopefully organizations like the Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Centre can help educate the public and change the government narrative when it comes to prioritizing the economy over ecology. You would think a country whose economy depends on its natural resources would be more worried about the long term affects of unsustainable growth and development.

“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. Ifs insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.” - E.O. Wilson (b. 1929)