Chuffy
Posted : 9/7/2008 7:56:49 AM
If its so remote humans cant access it, then there IS no over population argument. Populations fluctuate all the time and there is a delicate balance which is maintained WITHOUT human intervention.
This is putting it simply but here goes nothing: Too many wolves = population of cariobou decreases. Too few caribou = large population of wolves no longer supported = wolf population begins to decline. Fewer wolves = caribou begin to grow in numbers again. Large population of caribou = Wolf numbers go up again, as there is now more food to support a larger population. And round it goes again.
IMO, when humans start thinking they have to meddle, and they step in at the wrong time and/or cull to many, THATS when you get problems with a too-narrow gene pool and all the problems that stem from that. Diseases begin to appear that weren't a problem before (because they are carried on the recessive genome, but if the gene pool is too narrow, recessive traits start to appear more often). In time, the wolf/caribou populations won't need "controlling" by humans anymore, because they will do the job themselves, once the damage has been done.
Humans are generally too short sighted and usually don't see the far reaching consequences of meddling with wildlife.
That Palin woman makes my skin crawl. I'm glad she's not in my country.