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Behind The Glass Hunting with Chris Darimont and Chris Pryn
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Behind The Glass Hunting with Chris Darimont and Chris Pryn

April 12, 2021August 29, 2022

Chris Darimont spoke with hunter and podcaster Chris Pryn to discuss their shared interests in hunting and habitat protection, and also to figure out where they disagree. It’s a remarkable interview, in part, because both Darimont and Pryn work so hard to have a respectful conversation despite their differences.

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Hunting for status: men trophy hunt as a signal they can absorb the costs
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Hunting for status: men trophy hunt as a signal they can absorb the costs

March 28, 2017September 10, 2021

Just days before the controversial trophy hunt of grizzly bears resumes in BC on April 01, science offers new insight into the human super predator…

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Raincoast reacts to NDP grizzly hunt announcement
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Raincoast reacts to NDP grizzly hunt announcement

November 24, 2016November 24, 2016

The policy of allowing the killing of grizzly bears for sport has no economic, ecological or ethical justification…

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Bear hunt has not ended in the Great Bear Rainforest
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Bear hunt has not ended in the Great Bear Rainforest

February 16, 2016July 14, 2020

For those of you celebrating the announcement declaring “the end of commercial trophy hunting” in the Great Bear Rainforest, you can put away the champagne.

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Comment: Grizzly ‘hunter’ returns with rich array of trophies
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Comment: Grizzly ‘hunter’ returns with rich array of trophies

November 5, 2015November 11, 2015

Rebecca Boyd / Times Colonist
I spent 11 days on a fall grizzly “hunt” in coastal BC with Raincoast, a nonprofit working to protect grizzlies and their habitat…

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Comment: ‘Pack it out’ plan for grizzly hunts doesn’t work
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Comment: ‘Pack it out’ plan for grizzly hunts doesn’t work

October 31, 2015March 16, 2016

Chris Darimont, Kyle Artelle & Paul Paquet/Times Colonist
Trophy hunting of grizzly bears is opposed by 90 per cent of British Columbians, including scientists, environmentalists, First Nations and most hunters…

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Media release: NHL’s Clayton Stoner in court today on multiple charges for grizzly killing
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Media release: NHL’s Clayton Stoner in court today on multiple charges for grizzly killing

October 9, 2015October 14, 2015

NHLer Clayton Stoner is appearing in court today to face multiple charges regarding his trophy killing of a well-known grizzly bear…

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It makes more economic sense to shoot grizzlies with cameras than guns
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It makes more economic sense to shoot grizzlies with cameras than guns

July 18, 2014March 16, 2016

Chris Genovali / Huffington Post
Contrary to Minister Yamamoto’s assertions, there is no ecological, ethical, or economic justification for continuing to trophy kill B.C.’s grizzly bears…

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Grizzly bears more useful alive than dead
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Grizzly bears more useful alive than dead

July 18, 2014June 14, 2021

Chris Genovali / Times Colonist
One can only conclude the minister of tourism was poorly briefed with regard to the grizzly hunt after reading about her recent speech on Saltspring…

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Tourism minister’s grizzly comments baffling
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Tourism minister’s grizzly comments baffling

July 17, 2014March 16, 2016

Chris Genovali / Gulf Islands Driftwood
Our analysis showed that in the long term, it makes more economic sense to shoot grizzly bears with cameras than to shoot them with guns…

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Roadside bear kills raise monitoring concerns
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Roadside bear kills raise monitoring concerns

July 7, 2014October 24, 2014

Cara McKenna / Nanaimo Daily News
Two mutilated black bears found on a roadside have prompted Raincoast to compare Vancouver Island’s remote hunting areas to the wild west…

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Opinion: BC government wants grizzly bears dead
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Opinion: BC government wants grizzly bears dead

April 15, 2014March 16, 2016

Chris Genovali / Special to the Vancouver Sun
We want these bears dead. This is the message the B.C. government’s “reallocation policy” sends to Raincoast, to British Columbians, and to the world…

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