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Why and from whom the wolves must be protected?

 
Wolves have managed to survive throughout the centuries despite all the appalling methods of mass eradication and slaughter used against them as vermin. With time, human attitudes to all living creatures have improved and wolves are among those creatures. Collectively, we understand ever more clearly that we do not have the right to inflict our selfish whims upon nature and that no human can control the environment better than nature herself. It is the wolves which are the true hunters and owners of the forests, not humans. Wolves hunt to survive, but because many resent this behaviour their whole existence is under threat from us, while we humans often kill for no other reason than selfish pleasure.

 
Man constantly changes nature. We boast about the successful decrease of environmental pollution but forget that the wilds of Lithuania have become ever more unsuitable for our own fauna. Because of intensive tree cutting, our woods are at risk and the term "protected territories" is more meaningful in attracting builders of villas and tourists than it is in securing protection of our environment. Add to this situation intensive hunting and poaching and we have a future in which there are no more aurochs, deers, bears, sables, wild cats, flying squirrels, European minks, aurochs and many other species. Some scientists believe that the Lithuanian lynx is also on the edge of extinction even though officially they haven't been hunted since 1970. We can firmly name ourselves, the Lithuanian nation, as the offenders because it is we who are ruining that which we didn't create and don't own.

 
Even the unbeatable wolf is now almost extinct and it seems even in those places where they should be - in Labanoras, Azvinciai, Dainava, Rudninkai, Mincia, Adutiskis woods there are almost none left. Even in Zemaitija (Samogitian) National Park - in that tenebrous kingdom of fir-trees, wolves have been annihilated.

 
This Internet homepage is part of the wolf protection project.

 
In this site you will lean the whole truth about Lithuanian wolves, their lives and problems. First of all this page is dedicated to the friends of wolves. And they are on the increase in Western Europe as they are in our country. If you are not indifferent to the fate of wolves e-mail me at: labanoras@takas.lt

 
We expect your support in this difficult labour.

Respectfully,

Andrejus Gaidamavicius, chairman of UNCWC

• "Baltic Wolf"
• UNCWC