End the Trophy Hunt
Imagine the Great Bear Rainforest without bears. It’s time for Environment Minister Terry Lake to end the trophy hunt and dedicate resources to helping grizzly populations recover.
In the recent past First Nations, environmental organizations and ecotourism operators have reported that they are seeing far fewer bears and cubs in large parts of the Great Bear Rainforest. In some years numbers of salmon declined dramatically just when bears needed the fish most in order to fatten up for their winter hibernation and nursing newborn cubs. Yet the trophy hunt continues, even in protected areas of the Great Bear Rainforest.
More than 11,000 grizzlies have been killed across the province of British Columbia since 1975 – 87 per cent by trophy hunters.