BC's Grizzly Bear Trophy Hunt: A Bloody 'Necessary' Tradition?

BC's Grizzly Bear trophy hunt season begins today for yet another year, and despite calls to save the bears or pay attention to the dwindling numbers, the government has once again said that they will allow the hunt...

Bears Targeted as Trophy Hunt Opens in BC

BRITISH COLUMBIA (April 1, 2009) -- The provincial government will allow trophy hunters to begin killing bears for sport in the Great Bear Rainforest on Wednesday, even though Coastal First Nations and 78 percent of British Columbians want to see an end to the killing. Last...

Groups want bear hunting banned in the Great Bear Rainforest

BC Aboriginal groups and animals rights groups stood together today and announced that they want the BC government to ban the trophy hunting of bears on the coast, known as the Great Bear Rainforest. The Aboriginal...

Cutting the Bears Out of the Great Bear Rainforest

Any day now British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell is scheduled to announce whether or not his Liberal government will ratify land use plans for the north and central coasts of Canada's Great Bear Rainforest,...

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