Raincoast Conservation Foundation » Grizzly Reports

Wayward Course: British Columbia’s Failure to Meet Protected Areas Standards for Grizzlies (2005)

Raincoast — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:01:29 +0000

British Columbia Fails to Meet Protected Areas Standards for the Conservation of Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos) Populations and Habitat in the Northern Great Bear Rainforest. Dr. Brian L. Horejsi and Dr. Barrie K. Gilbert

Wayward Course

A critical assessment of the BC Central Coast Land & Resource Management Plan (2004)

Raincoast — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 09:01:30 +0000

This report is a critical assessment of protection for key wildlife & salmon habitats under the proposed BC Central Coast Land & Resource Management Plan undertaken by Dr. Paul Paquet, Dr. Chris Darimont, Dr. John Nelson and Katrina Bennett. The analysis focuses on salmon habitat, wolf homesites and deer winter range. The findings indicate that the CCLRMP’s PAS in its current form remain inadequate in protecting key wildlife species on the BC coast.

A Crtical Review of BC’s CCLRMP

Scientific Criteria for Evaluation and Establishment of GBMAs: Exec Summary

Raincoast — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 09:01:08 +0000

Executive summary and recommendations only.

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Crossroads: Economics, Policy and the Future of Grizzly Bears in British Columbia (2004)

Raincoast — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 09:01:23 +0000

Crossroads assembles a wide range of information from a variety of sources to present an overview of an important component of BC’s economy. The information and analysis relate to revenue figures for those industries relying on the presence of grizzly bears: grizzly hunting (as a component of guide outfitting) and grizzly viewing (as a component of ecotourism). BC currently receives considerably greater revenue from viewing grizzly bears than from hunting them. For ecotourism operations involving grizzly viewing, total revenues directly attributable to the presence of grizzlies are approximately $6.1 million ($CDN) annually. Guide outfitting operations with a grizzly hunt component, in comparison, generate about $3.3 million dollars from grizzly hunting activities.

Crossroads:Economics, Policy and the Futre of Grizzlies in BC

Losing Ground: The decline in fish and wildlife law enforcement capability in BC and Alaska (2002)

Raincoast — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:01:21 +0000

Authored by Dr. Brian Horejsi, Losing Ground analyzes the respective conservation enforcement capabilities of coastal BC and southeast Alaska. A comparison of the two jurisdictions reveals an enormous gap in enforcement capability between BC and Alaska. In every component compared, fish and wildlife enforcement capability in coastal BC did not measure up to Alaska fish and wildlife protection standards. At only 51 per cent of coastal Alaska’s capability, fish and wildlife enforcement capability in coastal BC is severely compromised. Wildlife populations and biological diversity are seriously threatened by the chronic underfunding and marginalization of wildlife conservation-oriented enforcement programs in BC.

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Losing Ground: Executive Summary (2002)

Raincoast — Sun, 17 Nov 2002 09:01:18 +0000

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