A geographical perspective on the decline and extermination of the Irish wolf Canis lupus - an initial assessment
Wolves were a component of the Irish landscape until 1786 when the last one was killed. It had taken a concerted effort by Cromwell and his Government in Ireland to bring this about particularly through deforestation and landscape change, legislation, bounties and the efforts of a few professional w...
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ftunivcollcork:oai:cora.ucc.ie:10468/2518 2024-09-15T18:01:11+00:00 A geographical perspective on the decline and extermination of the Irish wolf Canis lupus - an initial assessment Hickey, Kieran R. 2000 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10468/2518 https://doi.org/10.2014/igj.v33i1.311 en eng Geographical Society of Ireland HICKEY, K. R. 2000. A geographical perspective on the decline and extermination of the Irish wolf canis lupus—an initial assessment. Irish Geography, 33, 185-198. http://irishgeography.ie/index.php/irishgeography/article/view/311 doi:10.2014/igj.v33i1.311 198 0075-0778 2 Irish Geography 185 http://hdl.handle.net/10468/2518 33 © 2000 Geographical Society of Ireland http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Wolves Ireland Extermination Population Article (peer-reviewed) 2000 ftunivcollcork https://doi.org/10.2014/igj.v33i1.311 2024-07-29T03:06:03Z Wolves were a component of the Irish landscape until 1786 when the last one was killed. It had taken a concerted effort by Cromwell and his Government in Ireland to bring this about particularly through deforestation and landscape change, legislation, bounties and the efforts of a few professional wolf hunters. This paper estimates the wolf population in Ireland at three lime periods in the 1600s and examines how each of the forces already mentioned led to their eventual extermination. The 87 dated and documented wolf incidents which include wolf attacks on both animals and humans, wolf observations and the hunting and killing of wolves over the period 1560-1789 show both spatial and temporal variations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Canis lupus University College Cork, Ireland: Cork Open Research Archive (CORA) |
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Wolves were a component of the Irish landscape until 1786 when the last one was killed. It had taken a concerted effort by Cromwell and his Government in Ireland to bring this about particularly through deforestation and landscape change, legislation, bounties and the efforts of a few professional wolf hunters. This paper estimates the wolf population in Ireland at three lime periods in the 1600s and examines how each of the forces already mentioned led to their eventual extermination. The 87 dated and documented wolf incidents which include wolf attacks on both animals and humans, wolf observations and the hunting and killing of wolves over the period 1560-1789 show both spatial and temporal variations. |
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A geographical perspective on the decline and extermination of the Irish wolf Canis lupus - an initial assessment |
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A geographical perspective on the decline and extermination of the Irish wolf Canis lupus - an initial assessment |
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A geographical perspective on the decline and extermination of the Irish wolf Canis lupus - an initial assessment |
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A geographical perspective on the decline and extermination of the Irish wolf Canis lupus - an initial assessment |
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A geographical perspective on the decline and extermination of the Irish wolf Canis lupus - an initial assessment |
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geographical perspective on the decline and extermination of the irish wolf canis lupus - an initial assessment |
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Geographical Society of Ireland |
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2000 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/10468/2518 https://doi.org/10.2014/igj.v33i1.311 |
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HICKEY, K. R. 2000. A geographical perspective on the decline and extermination of the Irish wolf canis lupus—an initial assessment. Irish Geography, 33, 185-198. http://irishgeography.ie/index.php/irishgeography/article/view/311 doi:10.2014/igj.v33i1.311 198 0075-0778 2 Irish Geography 185 http://hdl.handle.net/10468/2518 33 |
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