Salus Maior wrote:Still, 1-2 wolf attacks a year somewhere is higher than 0. In my view, that's 1-2 people who would die or be badly injured that could have been avoided by not reintroducing wolves to places near where there's a decent amount of people.
In places like that, hunters can pick up the slack fine.
We're not talking about 1-2 attacks per year, we're talking about 2 fatalities in more than 100 years and where attacks or aggression occur the majority were a result of the wolves being habituated to humans, largely due to humans feeding them. Which again is very rare because wolves avoid built up areas where they are likely to encounter humans. In terms of human impacts there are probably going to be several times more injuries or fatalities due to accidents during hunting in an extended season than there would be through the actions of wolves via introductions.