Just like the Lorax before her, Miley Cyrus is here to speak
for the wolves. She has a simple message: please stop slaughtering them.
Cyrus traveled to British Columbia, Canada, this past
weekend to visit the Great Bear Rainforest as a guest of the preservation
society Pacific Wild.
The wolf cull is an old tradition in which they are hunted
in order to protect caribou, for whom wolves are a natural predator. However,
unlike deer, wolf meat is not used for food and most of the animal's carcas goes
to waste. It's estimated that 15 percent of Canada's wolf population is
slaughtered annually; many preservation groups consider the practice barbaric.
"When I first spoke out, I knew in my heart that the
wolf cull was wrong," Cyrus said in a post on Pacific Wild's website.
"But after this visit, I know science is on my side, not just on the wolf
cull, but also on the trophy hunt issue. Both are unsustainable and both are
horrific. Both have to end."
The 22-year-old has added preservation to her list of pet
projects, on which she is killing
it. Cyrus has also spoken out for gender
equality, trans issues, and on behalf of LGBTQ homeless youth.
In a video released showcasing Cyrus's trip, she talks about
the experience: "Without me kind of doing the things that sometimes, to
me, I get down, like, I can't believe I'm not a biologist and I'm a pop star,
that's ridiculous. But you know, it's given me such a platform."
Cyrus is not the only preservationist star speaking out
against the wolf cull. Pamela Anderson, ex-Labatt Blue girl and British
Columbia native, posted an open letter to her website Thursday, urging British
Columbia's premier Christy Clark to reconsider the cull's legality.
"I am deeply disturbed that my beloved province is
allowing people to hunt and kill wolves," Anderson wrote. "We all
want to restore the populations of endangered caribou, but gunning down wolves
is not the answer. ... Caribou are threatened because humans have overdeveloped
their habitat. Rather than spending millions in taxpayer dollars to kill more
animals, we need to invest in a plan to protect Canada's forestland, which
would also preserve the habitats of many other species, offset carbon
emissions, and, because the forest acts as a natural water filter, provide
everyone with cleaner water. Killing every wolf in the country won't save the
caribou if the animals have no protected habitat."
Proving that politics and politicians are 100% not garbage
people incapable of reasoned discourse, Clark addressed both Cyrus and
Anderson's comments in a press conference. "I want to make sure that Miley
knows that I'm willing to sit down and twerk it out,"
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