Suzanne Asha Stone: Coexistence

Species Unite

elizabeth novogratz

Philosophy, Society & Culture

5.0 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

"We are fed things like Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs and, you know, we grow up on this stuff, that the wolf is the big, bad character. And what the real wolf is like is so totally different." - Suzanne Asha Stone

A couple of months ago, we did a series on wolves. The episodes focused on the massacre of entire wolf populations in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. At the time, I said that we did enough wolf episodes. But the truth is we didn't do enough because wolves are still not on the endangered species list in those states.

Until they are, I don't think I can shut up about what we're doing to wolves, its egregious and its devastating.

Suzanne Stone has been on the front lines of wolf restoration in the Western USA for her entire career, since 1988.

In 2008 she founded the Wood River Wolf Project to demonstrate that wolves can coexist with sheep operations on national forests when adequate nonlethal deterrents are consistently applied.

She is a member of the IUCN Canid Specialist Task Force, the world's chief body of scientific and practical expertise on the status and conservation of all canid species and is also the Executive Director of the International Wildlife Coexistence Network where she is now helping to protect wolves and other imperiled wildlife with communities around the world.

Suzanne has proven many times over many years that proactive non-lethal coexistence methods work. Yet for some inane reason, the slaughter continues.

"If we keep going, if this is allowed to keep going, eventually we will have zero wolves. There's no way that this can be sustained. It's just brutal." – Suzanne Asha Stone

LINKS:

Wood River Wolf Project https://www.woodriverwolfproject.org/

International Wildlife Coexistence Network https://wildlifecoexistence.org/

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0:00.0	Species, unite, unite.
0:07.0	Species unite. We are fed things like Little Red Riding Hood and the three little pigs and we grow up on this stuff you know that the wolf is this big bad character and what the realats. This is Species Unite. We have a favor to ask if you like today's episode and you have a spare minute.
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1:09.6	A couple of months ago we did a series on wolves. They focused on the massacre of entire wolf populations in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.
1:13.7	And at that time, I said I did enough wolf episodes, but the truth is, we didn't do enough,
1:19.8	because they're still not on the endangered species list in those states.
1:23.5	Until then, I don't think I can shut up
1:25.8	about what we're doing to wolves,
1:27.7	because it's absolutely horrific.
1:30.6	So this conversation today is with Suzanne Stone.
1:35.0	Suzanne has worked with wolves for her entire career,
1:38.0	but since 2008, when the Wood River Wolf Project began,
1:42.0	her career really became about solutions. Wood River Wolf Project began.
1:42.8	Her career really became about solutions.
1:45.7	The Wood River Wolf Project is a collaborative of community members, livestock producers, wildlife
1:51.0	NGOs, and county, state, and federal agencies.
1:54.2	And they're working together to use proactive and non-lethal deterrence
1:58.2	to minimize conflicts between livestock and wolves. It's really nice to meet you.
2:16.6	It's really nice to meet you too.
2:18.7	Nice to meet you too.
2:20.2	So I did a lot of episodes on Wolves this spring and I spent time in Idaho and Montana, Wyoming and I saw some wolves and then I said, okay, I'm finished like I've been talking about
2:33.8	wolves so much that I'm starting to drive people crazy I think but you know what I
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