CFAX 1070 Feb 11, 2009 Adam Stirling Raincoast says the lives of BC’s majestic predators such as grizzly bears, black bears and cougars, should not be sold online. But, Raincoast executive director Chris Genovali says that’s exactly what’s happening with trophy hunts being auctioned off on eBay.
February 11, 2009 Sidney, B.C. – Wildlife advocates urged eBay to halt the sale of trophy hunts of grizzly and brown bears, black bears, wolves, cougars and other predators on its website.
Raincoast scientists Dr. Chris Darimont and Dr. Paul Paquet are authors on an important paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.’a0 The paper examines the impacts of commercial harvesting on plants and animals.
Globe and Mail December 19, 2008 by Chris Darimont and Chris Genovali With dismay we read Mark Hume’s article (B.C.’s Quiet War On Wolves – Dec.15). Emboldened by the forest industry and hunting groups, the province has demonized and made scapegoats of wolves for the decline of everything from marmots to mountain caribou.
Monday Magazine The silence along the river was almost deafening. No birds, bears or wolves appeared along the banks. The reason soon became obvious: not a single salmon was to be seen in the glacial-fed water. Not a single salmon carcass lay on the ground, not in the estuary or the forest. There was no…
Vancouver Sun, Thursday, July 31, 2008 Letter: by Chris Genovali Re: B.C. grizzly population at ‘great risk’, July 29 I’d like to clarify an important point in the article. I did not state that the 430 grizzly bears killed in 2007 were all from sport hunting. What I did say is that a record number…
The Prince Rupert Daily News Thursday, July 31, 2008 George T. Baker In a Vancouver Sun article published on Tuesday, it was reported that 430 grizzly bears were killed in the province last year. But the Environment Minister Barry Penner shot back that the number was not accurately portrayed by the coalition of scientists, conservationists…
Conservationists press premier on matter Vancouver Sun July 28, 2008 Kelly Sinoski As hunters prepare for the fall season, conservationists are calling on the provincial government to keep the grizzlies out of the hunt. A coalition of scientists, conservationists and animal advocates sent a letter to Premier Gordon Campbell Monday, suggesting it ban grizzly hunting…
Canadian Press July 29, 2008 VANCOUVER – Hunting grizzly bears puts even more pressure on a species already in jeopardy from shrinking habitats, poaching and global warming, says a group of scientists and conservationists calling on the B.C. government to end the hunt.
Globe and Mail July 29, 2008 SUNNY DHILLON VANCOUVER — A conservation group based on Vancouver Island is urging the British Columbia government to “immediately end all hunting of grizzly bears” in the province, given “uncertainty” about the species’ current population. The Raincoast Conservation Society made the request in a letter sent to Premier Gordon…
Victoria News July 30, 2008 by Chris Genovali Re: “Protecting species is everyone’s job” (Tom Fletcher, July 16) The article’s argument that the B.C. government’s “advertising for more people to visit parks and get out fishing … might be more important to biodiversity than difficult-to-enforce endangered species laws” is facile at best.
by Chris Genovali letters – Victoria Times Colonist and Vancouver Province Published: Sunday, June 15, 2008 Re: ” Poll: Ban grizzly hunting in B.C.,” June 11. British Columbians have been strongly opposed to the grizzly hunt for several years. In 2001, the International Fund for Animal Welfare commissioned Strategic Communications to conduct a province wide…