For large carnivores in British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest April marks the start of the spring recreational hunting season, and signals a time to start dodging bullets from “sportsmen” wielding high-powered rifles in search of “trophies.”
BC holds extensive tracts of large carnivore habitat that provide core areas of vital ground for all indigenous wide-ranging carnivores, including cougars…
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
January 19, 2011
Trophy hunting and habitat loss are putting B.C.’s cougar population at risk and provincial policies do not adequately protect the big cats, says a new report by three scientists from the Raincoast Conservation Foundation…
Chris Genovali and Camilla Fox discuss the persecution of wolves on both sides of the US/Canada border, despite the use of their presence as icons of wilderness.
Special to the Vancouver Province, January 22, 2010 By Chris Genovali A new decade has dawned and in a few months yet another year of grizzly bear hunting will commence in British Columbia.
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…