Ethics in Environmental History

        This piece of tapestry depicts a Florentine wolf hunt that was common in the time. This is an example of man exerting his dominance over nature. Wolves were considered to be an "evil" part of nature and they would eat livestock. This was a problem so bounties were put up for wolves as if they were  criminals and the wolf hunter became a celebrated part of the culture. Man was not able to find peaceful cohabitation with these creatures so he removed them from the environment. Today the wolf population is completely wiped out in some areas and they are confined to less populated areas in northern Europe and Canada. Wolf hunting became a practice that led to the extinction of a species for the ease of mind of mankind.