EXPOSED with John E. Marriott is back with another hard-hitting expose of the trapping industry, this time examining how our family pets interact with snares and how our taxpayer dollars are funding a secretive snare testing facility in Vegreville, Alberta, using live coyotes! Join John for this great new episode. […]
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Some disturbing news out of British Columbia this morning, as my EXPOSED team and I have discovered not one, but TWO predator killing contests in the province (with the help of the Wildlife Defence League and Pacific Wild and concerned local citizens in Williams Lake and the Creston area). The […]
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Well, we did it! You did it!! Not only did we raise the $13,000 I set out as our goal for the Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter fundraiser for a new truck, but we actually raised a staggering $23,757.60 in the final five days!! As our totals climbed dramatically throughout the […]
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For any of you that have been living under a rock for the past few days, it may come as a surprise to learn that the internet’s latest sensation is not a Beiber or a Kardashian, but rather a Palmer. It seems while most of us were going on living […]
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As usual, it is a rant that gets me back onto my blog train. This time around, it’s the federal government’s announcement last Wednesday, July 15th, that the Bow Valley Parkway in Banff National Park is going to get a $67 million dollar facelift widening its shoulders to create a bike […]
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RANT time: great article in yesterday’s Red Deer Advocate illustrating just how devastating snaring is to wild wolves (http://tinyurl.com/pb6qht4). Imagine this gorgeous wolf slowly choking to death over the course of three or four days, because that’s exactly what happens thousands of times across Alberta each winter. The Red Deer […]
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WARNING: Extremely graphic images included below. After my recent posts about British Columbia and Alberta basically having an open season on wolves these days, perhaps it comes as no surprise to anyone that Alberta is playing host to a number of legal coyote-killing contests this winter. Kodiak Lake Hunting & […]
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Hired snipers. Deftly-skilled pilots. And dead wolves. Lots of dead wolves. 180 of them by the time the snow melts in British Columbia in two select areas, the South Peace and the South Selkirks. And the best part? You’re paying for it. That’s right, every single one of us tree […]
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There it is on the Travel Alberta website: “Welcome to Alberta, home of the largest wolf cull in Canada, where the tax dollars our government gleans from your tourist visits pays for our hired guns to blast wild wolves from the sky, all in the name of psuedo-science.“ Oh, I’m […]
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Her name is Big Momma, and she is a photo tour superstar. Each fall in the Chilcotin, when my clients and I arrive to photograph grizzly bears eating salmon, Big Momma gets some of the biggest gasps and stares — and for good reason, for she is gentle, she is […]
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