Notes from the Great Bear
Ross Dixon writes about his experience joining Raincoast’s fall “grizzly hunt” and his wildlife excursion in the Great Bear Rainforest…
Comment: Green MLA’s grizzly bill poorly thought out
Raincoast takes issue with MLA Andrew Weaver’s re-labelling BC’s grizzly trophy hunt as a food hunt…
Can grizzly bear watchers end B.C.’s trophy hunt?
The Georgia Strait interviews Raincoast scientists on the science and politics behind the grizzly hunt
CBC interviews: The ethics of trophy hunting
CBC interviews William Housty from the Heiltsuk Nation and Raincoast’s Paul Paquet as they discuss the ethics of killing grizzly bears for “sport”…
The ethics of BC’s grizzly hunt
Raincoast scientist and carnivore expert Dr. Paul Paquet talks with CBC about the ethics of trophy hunting grizzly bears…
In 2012, is a bear worth more living or shot dead?
By Kevin Smith, Times Colonist
For a moment, I want you to put aside your feelings around trophy hunting of bears. Instead, I want you to think about the business case…
Now protect grizzly habitat
Letter to the Editor, Edmonton Journal Re: Grizzlies at risk: province; Dwindling bears given threatened status, The Journal, June 4. Sustainable Resource Development Minister Mel Knight should be commended for finally listing the province’s grizzly bears as a threatened species and for keeping the trophy hunting ban in place. However, he falls critically short by…
There’s no debate: Killing bears is immoral
B.C.’s policy frameworks fail to take ethical issues into consideration By Chris Genovali, Special to the Victoria Times Colonist, January 21, 2010 A new decade has dawned and in a few months yet another year of grizzly bear hunting will commence in British Columbia. The B.C. grizzly bear hunt has been a source of unrelenting…
Trophy hunters in the line of fire
By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun June 12, 2009 Gary Shelton has shot his share of grizzlies over the years, but the bear he’s likely to be remembered for is the one he didn’t even kill.
Bear deaths upset animal activists
18 problem grizzly bears were put down in 2007 and 2008 By John Colebourn, The Province May 10, 2009 Animal-rights activists are outraged over the number of grizzly bears being shot in the Bella Coola valley on the central coast.
“Control kills” of grizzlies out of control on central coast
by Chris Genovali Georgia Straight May 8, 2009 A disturbing number of grizzly bears are being shot as so-called “control kills” in the Bella Coola valley on the central coast.
Time for action against eBay
Chris Genovali Executive Director, Raincoast May 2009 Last fall I visited numerous watersheds in the Great Bear Rainforest where an unnatural silence filled the air due to the lack of returning salmon.