Grizzly bear kill limits being broken across B.C., study says
MARK HUME
VANCOUVER — The Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, Nov. 06 2013
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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