Killing Wolves is not Bad

Today in class a person stated that 'killing wolves is not bad', which being an environmental studies course everybody viewed as completely wrong. It is true that our over harvesting of apex predators have caused extreme ecosystem damage around the world. This does not mean that it is wrong or bad to kill one of these animals. Each animal death needs to be looked into to find out if there really is environmental damage done. Many animals such as Siberian Tigers, Wolves in the USA, Bears in Europe and Lions or Cheetahs in Asia would have huge impacts on their ecosystems. There are areas in the world where there is enough animals that a sustainable harvest is possible, like wolves in Canada. Yes it is true that there are certain subspecies of wolves that need to be protected, red wolves in Ontario, but other places there are as many wolves as their needs to be. I am sure that people will state that killing one wolf in a pack could cause the pack to fall apart, but there are in many areas enough wolf packs to fill in the gap when one pack disappears.
I am not writing this to suggest that we should go out and kill wolves. I am trying to get across the point that their can be a sustainable harvest of all animals. In the past we have not been sustainable at all, causing the downfall of so many animals.

The AU has teeth afterall

I am sure that the current AU mission for intervention in Africa will be noticed by few. The AU is currently planning an invasion of one of the Islands of Comoros. These islands are off the coast of Africa on the way to Madagascar. They were a former colony of France, which still controls one of the islands. It is a complicated geopolitical issue, as well as a complicated government system in place.
The issue that the AU is presently going to deal with is the removal of a leader of one of the islands. He has a military that is just as strong and as large as the government of Comoros. This caused them to ask for the AU to use their power to over throw the leader. Which the AU has accepted and will do with out assistance from another regional group or the UN. France will be watching and supporting to a degree, but that is because it is happening near their colony. The odd part that I saw was that there will be Sudanese military presence, about a third of the troops present. This appears to be a little weird, they are supporting democracy and protecting people in other countries, but they do not protect their own people in their own territory.