Government culling of Minnesota's wolves could place them in greater danger

Governments often take on the job of killing problem wolves that attack livestock in order to increase public tolerance for the predators and, in theory, to reduce poaching by frustrated citizens.

Turns out, it could be having the opposite effect.

In what is likely to be a controversial finding, researchers from Wisconsin and Sweden have found that poaching appears to increase when governments are allowed to kill wolves.

http://www.startribune.com/government-culling-of-minnesota-s-wolves-could-place-them-in-greater-danger/378885301/