Sadie Parr wants Nelson to consider wolves as a part of the city's pack. Parr is founder of WeHowl, a non-profit organization advocating for an end to B.C.
's wolf cull program. WeHowl fundraised for the installation of two new murals in Nelson and Vancouver meant to start dialogue about the species and its importance to the province's ecosystems. “I think of Nelson just as a highly conscientious area that is in touch with nature and the environment.
It's always kind of resonated that to me. It's a beautiful place where there could and should be wolves.” The Nelson mural was painted on the side of Samurai Hardwood Flooring at 900 Simpson Rd.
by Dominic Laporte and Anaϊs Labrèque of Drift Mural Co. Laporte, an Ottawa-based artist who two years ago painted another mural in the city as part of the Nelson International Mural Festival, said he wanted the piece to portray wolves in a kinder light than that of rarely seen predators. “[I wanted to] to show the vibrancy of a wolf pack, and the fluidity of the movement and how they migrate, and things like that.
Just a really positive representation of wolves.” B.C.
began its wolf cull in 2015 as part of its Caribou Recovery Program. A total of 248 wolves were killed by aerial shootings in B.C between December 2023 and March 2024, according to the Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship.
The conservation organization Pacific Wild says B.C. has killed 2,192 wolves since 2015, while a CBC report published in December.