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…
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The cruelest month for British Columbia’s coastal carnivores
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.”
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Cougars: British Columbia’s neglected carnivore
BC holds extensive tracts of large carnivore habitat that provide core areas of vital ground for all indigenous wide-ranging carnivores, including cougars…
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Government failing to protect big cats, conservation group says
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
January 19, 2011Trophy 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…
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Death cults among us: The war on wolves
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.
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Let’s examine the morality of the trophy hunt
A version of this article first ran in the Vancouver Province, January 22, 2010. The B.C. grizzly bear hunt has been a source of unrelenting controversy. Both sides are stuck in an expert-driven argument in which both camps claim science supports their positions. It is time that the debate was conducted within the context of…
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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…
