Science and Scholarship Abused, and the Counter-Productive “Conservation” of Wolves in North America and Europe

Although science forms the basis of wildlife conservation in the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, advocacy and inadequate scholarship have led to conservation legislation that is destroying the wolf as a species. “Wolf science” is flawed due to the denial of historical information abou...

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Published in:Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference
Main Author: Geist , Valerius
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: eScholarship, University of California 2016
Subjects:
advocacy
Canis lupus
conservation
Europe
genetics
North America
predation
wolf
Life Sciences
Online Access:http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4sc3k5mw
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spelling ftcdlib:qt4sc3k5mw 2023-05-15T15:50:11+02:00 Science and Scholarship Abused, and the Counter-Productive “Conservation” of Wolves in North America and Europe Geist , Valerius 34 - 37 2016-01-01 application/pdf http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4sc3k5mw english eng eScholarship, University of California qt4sc3k5mw http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4sc3k5mw public Geist , Valerius. (2016). Science and Scholarship Abused, and the Counter-Productive “Conservation” of Wolves in North America and Europe. Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference, 27(27), 34 - 37. doi:10.5070/V427110519. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4sc3k5mw advocacy Canis lupus conservation Europe genetics North America predation wolf Life Sciences article 2016 ftcdlib https://doi.org/10.5070/V427110519 2019-04-05T22:52:25Z Although science forms the basis of wildlife conservation in the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, advocacy and inadequate scholarship have led to conservation legislation that is destroying the wolf as a species. “Wolf science” is flawed due to the denial of historical information about wolves, ignoring how wolves explore new prey, ignoring long-standing research on the social organization and its changes in wolves, ignoring hybridization as a cause of the genomic extinction, the use of genetic data without a taxonomic verification of specimen, misuse of mathematics, and espousing meaningless statistics. Wolves cannot be conserved as a species in settled landscapes. So called wolf conservation in North America and in Europe is in need of reevaluation, as it is destroying a genuine canid species. Article in Journal/Newspaper Canis lupus University of California: eScholarship Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference 27
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Canis lupus
conservation
Europe
genetics
North America
predation
wolf
Life Sciences
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Canis lupus
conservation
Europe
genetics
North America
predation
wolf
Life Sciences
Geist , Valerius
Science and Scholarship Abused, and the Counter-Productive “Conservation” of Wolves in North America and Europe
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Canis lupus
conservation
Europe
genetics
North America
predation
wolf
Life Sciences
description Although science forms the basis of wildlife conservation in the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, advocacy and inadequate scholarship have led to conservation legislation that is destroying the wolf as a species. “Wolf science” is flawed due to the denial of historical information about wolves, ignoring how wolves explore new prey, ignoring long-standing research on the social organization and its changes in wolves, ignoring hybridization as a cause of the genomic extinction, the use of genetic data without a taxonomic verification of specimen, misuse of mathematics, and espousing meaningless statistics. Wolves cannot be conserved as a species in settled landscapes. So called wolf conservation in North America and in Europe is in need of reevaluation, as it is destroying a genuine canid species.
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title_full_unstemmed Science and Scholarship Abused, and the Counter-Productive “Conservation” of Wolves in North America and Europe
title_sort science and scholarship abused, and the counter-productive “conservation” of wolves in north america and europe
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