This resource list, which Pacific Wild has compiled based on a file review and a literature review, includes research articles, government reports, books, and other references pertinent to the decline of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) and the intensive reduction of the grey wolf (Canis lupus) in British Columbia (B.C.).
While this document is not an exhaustive list of references related to caribou decline, habitat destruction, and the wolf cull program, it is a substantial collection of over 100 research summaries.
The resource list highlights the scientific evidence for the urgent need to protect and restore caribou habitat and challenges the prevailing narrative that attributes caribou decline primarily to wolf predation. The Government of British Columbia is using the grey wolf as the scapegoat for caribou decline, but the literature collected here substantiates the cull as ineffective long-term, unsustainable, and unethical.
Chapter topics include threats to caribou, Indigenous-led conservation, current wolf management, insufficient habitat protection, and the scientific debate over predator control effectiveness. Additional chapters cover ecological consequences of predator removal, preferred non-lethal recovery strategies, ethical considerations, public disapproval, caribou ecology, historical abundance, climate change impacts, industrial pressures, and relevant legal and policy frameworks.
