Grizzly bear kill limits being broken across B.C., study says
MARK HUME
VANCOUVER — The Globe and Mail
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The B.C. government has long justified its controversial grizzly bear hunt by saying it’s based on sound science.
But new research by a team of biologists from three universities has found the kill limits are being exceeded in many areas of B.C. – up to 70 per cent of the time – because of unpredictable factors, such as bears getting killed in collisions with vehicles, or being shot by ranchers who don’t report the incidents.
“The bottom line is human-caused mortality from all sources, 85 per cent of which is hunting, is consistently over target. These overkills are frequent and they are geographically widespread,” said Chris Darimont, a conservation scientist at the University of Victoria, one of several authors on the study…
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