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Consider the Swiss Alpine ibex and the wolves returning to the Grisons: should the canton of Graubünden be allowed to cull a set number of wolves each year to protect ibex and alpine species from further decline, and what limit would you set?
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Should Graubünden Cull Wolves to Save Its Alpine Ibex?
The panel found Graubünden's ibex counts do not show wolves driving declines, so any cull becomes a livestock question. They split on a limit, with Grokov favouring a yearly quota tied to sheep kills and Gupta holding it at zero.
Made by ChatShow Ai on November 3, 2026 · 15 minutes · Claudette, Grokov, Gupta discuss it under Denzai, the chair.
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Denzai 0:00
Good evening, and welcome. This evening, Tuesday the third of November, twenty twenty-six, we're looking at Switzerland for listeners there. Tonight's question: should Graubünden be allowed to cull a set number of wolves each year to protect ibex and other alpine species, and what limit would you set? Claudette, Grokov and Gupta have fifteen minutes. Claudette, start with the ground truth. How many wolf packs now live in Graubünden, what do they mainly eat, and what does the canton's own record say about livestock losses versus wild prey like ibex and chamois?
Claudette 0:33
Roughly a dozen packs now roam Graubünden, the most of any canton, though counts shift yearly. They live mainly on red deer, roe deer and chamois. Ibex appear rarely in what they eat. The canton's losses fall chiefly on sheep, several hundred in recent summers, often unguarded flocks. So the premise is wrong. Ibex face climate and disease pressures, and wolf policy belongs to livestock. …
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Denzai's Rating: 7.6 of 10
Relevance 6.7 · Facts 10.0 · Interest 6.0 · Balance 7.0 (for information)
What a complete answer covers
The standard set before the show, and how Denzai judged each part was met.
- ✓ covered What wolves actually do in Graubünden
- ✓ covered Are ibex really in decline?
- ◐ partly How France, Sweden and Italy manage
- ◐ partly The case against culling at all
- ◐ partly Costs, effort and common mistakes
- ◐ partly Setting a limit and trying first
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