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30 June 2009 Celebrating our natural wealth on Canada Day By Dr. David Suzuki with Dr. Faisal Moola 

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A conservation officer in Prince George, B.C., gave chest compressions to a bear after it stopped breathing Monday. (Global)A conservation officer in Prince George, B.C., used his CPR training to save a bear’s life after it was tranquillized.

Gary Van Spengen’s conservation team was called to a residential neighbourhood Monday after a female bear was spotted in a tree.

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Chance to halt damnation closing rapidly, ecologists say

By Ethan Baron, The ProvinceJune 17, 2009 7:20 AMBe the first to post a comment

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B.C. bear hunt

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By D. Simon Jackson, special to CBC News

The Great Bear Rainforest on Canada’s West Coast is one of the most pristine, spectacular and ecologically important areas of the world — home to a remarkable diversity of life.

It is also home to an ongoing controversy.

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CBC News   June 1, 2009

The sport hunting season for black bears began Monday in the Northwest Territories, with at least one hunting outfitter allowed to bait bears — a practice that may not last long, according to the territory’s environment minister.

This year marks the second season bear baiting has been allowed in the N.W.T.

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Bear investigation continues: Shoshone News Press

By NICK ROTUNNO
Staff writer

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently investigating the killing of a grizzly bear Sunday night in the Rose Lake area, according to an Idaho Department of Fish and Game press release.

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By Laura Stone, The ProvinceJune 13, 2009 3:22 PMBe the first to post a comment

Fish heads and guts were among the bait that conservationists claim was used to lure Grizzly bears to be shot in a Bella Bella conservancy area Thursday night.

Ian McAllister, a conservation director for Pacific Wild, says an RCMP investigation is underway after Eric Boyum, owner of the bear-viewing company Ocean Adventures, discovered a man illegally practicing “bear baiting.”

The man has not been caught, he said.

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By Larry Pynn, Vancouver SunJune 12, 2009Comments (3) Please comment after article on Vancouver Sun On-line edition.

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Chris Genovali / raincoast.org

There is an amazing array of things one can purchase on EBay, from used lawn furniture to vintage dolls to bongs allegedly used by Olympic athletes. Among the myriad items being sold on EBay are guided hunts of North America’s grizzly bears, black bears, wolves and cougars. It’s hard to believe, but these recreational killing opportunities are now bought and sold on the world’s largest internet auction site; EBay has become an online marketplace peddling the trophy hunting of the continent’s top-level predator species.

When EBay announced a global ban last year on sales of ivory products after a report revealed the online auction site was helping to fuel illegal trade in wildlife products, conservation and animal welfare groups were encouraged by EBay’s action. However, a subsequent review of the EBay website found hunting sales of not only the aforementioned North American large carnivores, but of African lions and leopards as well.

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Kitimat Sentinel
June 03, 2009

Oil sands and the risk to BC’s coastline was the topic for two-authors at
the end of a five-day tour of BC’s northwest.

In a series called “A story with two ends”, Ian McAllister, author of The
Great Bear Rainforest and most recently The Last Wild Wolves of the Great
Bear Rainforest, together with business journalist Andrew Nikiforuk, who
authored Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, presented a
packed room at the Rod and Gun Club with what pipeline development will
mean not only for the local ecosystems but also for the nation-at-large.

Approximately 100 people attended the forum on Friday evening.

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