Yet another wolf cull

[Catherine]

There is a wolf cull going on in Canada's North West Territories. The reason given for the cull is preservation of the Cariboo herds. The Cariboo are in serious decline. It has been decided that the wolves are the cause. It is not clear that this cull will actually help the Cariboo. It is not clear that the estimates of wolf numbers are accurate.   

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nwt...-1.5802026

Worse, if it could be worse, they are shooting them from airplanes. It is expensive, inhumane and a waste of resources.
A pilot gave his objections to the cull.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/n-w...-1.5777915


Could there be another reason for the Cariboo decline.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/por...-1.3514386

People who live in the north do eat the Cariboo, but they harvest the whole animal and nothing is wasted. The numbers harvested are sustainable.
The wolves as natural predators do not waste either.  
What isn't sustainable is the killing of numbers of animals and wasting them. 
Holding a wolf cull will not help if humans on the ground are in effect culling the Cariboo.

They would be better to use the money to fund conservation projects and to prevent the wasteful human slaughter of Cariboo.
That is the thing that is causing the imbalance and the decline of the Cariboo herds. Leave the wolves alone. As predators they keep the  herds healthy.
Human hunters do not do that.