Europe has a wolf problem, and a late Norwegian philosopher had the solution

> They will kill as many as the can

I think that is logical? Prey normally is in the open and will run away. Killing a few more makes sense because the wolf can come back later to eat again. Only because of the fence the prey cannot flee and therefore all will be killed. And the next day the owner will remove all the dead.

At least in some countries if a wolf kills a sheep the farmer is compensated.

For instance, in France the government will pay the value of the animal, plus compensation for stress caused to the herd, plus any vet costs, plus compensation for any damages to fences. So much so that the system is abused.

But this is not the point here. The point is to learn to co-exist with the natural world instead of destroying anything we don't like or profit from.

> Need expensive fencing.

Or they can get guard dog who will deter almost all wolves unless they are starving

It's a hunter problem, they need shovels.

Delusional city people making laws trampling economic minorities like farmers, can make all the laws they want but what happens on the ground might be very different.

Good old learning by not policing..

Natural predation is irrelevant to the argument. Wolves and their preys co-exist and "equal right to exist" is more fundamental: they have the right to live their lives in the natural world as opposed to being exterminated. They have "the right to be there" as also written in the article.

My reading is that the “right to exist” applies to the species as a whole, not individual animals.

If you are a deer that gets eaten by a wolf you have excisted, but if wolves is eradicated they have not.

This is the natural order of things.

Without predators deer/boar/etc populations explode and need controlling through hunting. This is exactly why hunters are unhappy where wolves have come back: the wolves eat the animals the hunters want to shoot.

Very handy in Scotland where there are far too many deer.

Venison, venisoff. As Mr. Miyagi never said.

Lotka–Volterra equations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equatio...

The deer population in the US, at least the eastern US, has been increasing since the mid-1930s. Largely this is because farms--where one might hunt--have been replaced by suburbs, which offer shelter and gardens. Because the overpopulation of deer is harmful to the vegetation, the US Park Service employees hunters every winter to shoot deer in Rock Creek Park at night.

So let’s destroy all natural ecosystems and turn everything into farmland, managed forests or parks?

Also (unless your comment is sarcasm/trolling) you do know that somebody has to kill those deer anyway (why is it any better if humans do it for sport) to avoid unsustainable population explosion