Question

The reintroduction of wolves their angered nearby farmers because they feared their animals would be hunted. What level of responsibility do you think the national park should have towards their neighbors? What level of responsibility to the neighbors have to protect their own property? Use reasons and examples to justify your answer.

Answer 1

The national park has very specific responsibility to maintain and protect the organisms within the park. Though the farmers are their neighbors, wolves are essential to the ecosystem inhabited by the farmers and their livestock. The park may share some responsibility if property is damaged because of the wolves (cows killed, etc) but the population of the wolves is so sensitive that it cannot justify killing them in the name of “protection of personal property”.