Sat 28 Jun 2008
Thu 26 Jun 2008
Grizzly Hunt in BC
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Hunting for grizzly bears
By Andrew Findlay
Publish Date: June 26, 2008
Thu 26 Jun 2008
Governors’ talk on Habitat Lacks Teeth…marmots to grizzly bears
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Mon 23 Jun 2008
Face to face with the Grizzly - BC
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Wall Street Journal
Face-to-Face With the Grizzly
Tours to view bears up close in the wilderness of British Columbia are on the rise By CANDACE JACKSON June 21, 2008; Page W3 Nekite Valley, British Columbia
No matter how scary it may look, our guide tells us, if a grizzly bear gets close, don’t run.
As we spot our first bear tracks in the mud later that evening, it’s clear that we’re in bear country now — and there isn’t much to run to. We’ll spend the next few nights in one of the most remote corners of the vast wilderness of British Columbia, a 40-minute seaplane ride from the nearest fishing village at a bear-viewing lodge built on a barge. In the mornings, we’ll rise early to look for the bears, trekking through grassy marshes and boating along shallow inlets in one of the few places where grizzlies still outnumber humans. Our guide is an unarmed biologist.
Tue 10 Jun 2008
Opposition to Killing Grizzlies for Sport on the Rise
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Globe and Mail Article – Exclusive by Mark Hume June 10, 2008
June 10, 2008 at 4:00 AM EDT
Tue 10 Jun 2008
End The Trophy Hunt for Grizzlies Poll Reports:BC
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JUNE 10, 08
Thu 5 Jun 2008
Bearing Down on Grizzlies - BC
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http://commonground.ca/iss/203/cg203_suzuki.shtml
| Bearing down on grizzlies |
| SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Years ago, I was surprised to learn that a grizzly bear is protected in the United States, but if it walks across the border into British Columbia, it can be killed for sport. So we did a program on them for The Nature of Things. I was amazed to see pictures from the 1800s of immense piles of skulls from grizzlies that were slaughtered to make room for early settlers on the prairies. Grizzlies were not just mountain animals; they flourished on bison all the way across Canada to Manitoba and south to Texas and California (where the only place you’ll find one now is on the state flag)! Grizzlies need space – tagged animals have been known to travel over hundreds of kilometres in a season. But the cumulative impacts of habitat loss and fragmentation from logging, mining, road building, urbanization and other land-use pressures have forced them into isolated patches of territory. |
Fri 23 May 2008
Grizzly Bear Sighting Confirmed on Vancouver Island
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Grizzly bear sighting confirmed on Island
Times Colonist
Published: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
A weekend sighting of a grizzly bear on northern Vancouver Island has wildlife officials concluding the large carnivores have migrated from the mainland and are likely here to stay.
For years, Vancouver Island residents took comfort from the fact that the province’s grizzly population, now numbering 17,000, were exclusive to the mainland.
Sun 18 May 2008
Bear Hunt will be Last One - Council of Haida Nation
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Fri 9 May 2008
National Geographic Features Area in BC,AB and MT
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National Geographic features area
By Joni MacFarlane
Reporter
Friday May 02, 2008
National Geographic’s newest cross-border geotourism initiative featuring the Crowsnest Pass and Pincher Creek was unveiled on April 17 in Calgary.
Centered on the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, and featuring the Rocky Mountain and foothill areas of Alberta, B.C. and Montana, the initiative was undertaken to promote geotourism for a unique and special place identified as the Crown of the Continent. The region spans 42,000 square kilometres and encompasses five tribal and First Nation reserves and two World Heritage Sites.
The National Geographic and local partners, began gathering geotourism nominations from the public last year. This was used to put together a mapguide and an interactive website, which highlights the environmental and cultural heritage in the transboundary Rockies. The project represents a large collaboration between dozens of organizations including communities, tourism bureaus, conservation and business groups, educators, First Nations, government agencies and others working in the region.
Geotourism is defined by National Geographic as “tourism that sustains or enhances the geographical character of a place - its environment, culture, aesthetics, heritage and the well-being of its residents.” According to the Travel Industry Association of America, 55-65 million Americans fit the category of eco-tourists or eco-travellers as they are sometimes called. This equals roughly six million Canadians. “The objective of the mapguide” is to showcase the region’s most unique points of interest and to tell the broader story of a remarkable landscape beyond borders,” said Jonathan Tourtellot, director of National Geographic’s Centre for Sustainable Destinations and senior editor for the map. “The Crown of the Continent is one of the most intact natural ecosystems in the temperate region of the world. This map tells the stories tied to this very special landscape.”
Fri 9 May 2008
Alaska’s Legislature wants polar bear study
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Wed 30 Apr 2008
Bearing Down on Grizzlies: David Suzuki
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Subject: [BCEN LW:] David Suzuki: Bearing down on grizzlies
David Suzuki: Bearing down on grizzlies
Publish Date: April 29, 2008
http://www.straight.com/article-143761/david-suzuki-bearing-down-grizzlies
By David Suzuki and Faisal Moola
Years ago, I was surprised to learn that a grizzly bear is protected in the United States, but if it walks across the border into British Columbia, it can be killed for sport. So we did a program on them for The Nature of Things. I was amazed to see pictures from the 1800s of immense piles of skulls from grizzlies that were slaughtered to make room for early settlers on the prairies. Grizzlies were not just mountain animals; they flourished on bison all the way across Canada to Manitoba and south to Texas and California (where the only place you’ll find one now is on the state flag)! Grizzlies need space – tagged animals have been known to travel over hundreds of kilometres in a season. But the cumulative impacts of habitat loss and fragmentation from logging, mining, road building, urbanization, and other land-use pressures have forced them into isolated patches of territory.
The U.S. Endangered Species Act lists the grizzly as “threatened”, meaning it is in danger of becoming extinct. Grizzly bears in Canada are ranked as “special concern” by Canada’s scientific committee on species at risk (the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, or COSEWIC) but remain legally unprotected. In the absence of legal protection, they continue to be hunted unsustainably in B.C. Government statistics show that 430 grizzlies were killed in the province in 2007, and close to 11,000 have been killed since 1975.
Wed 30 Apr 2008
Premier Campbell Please Listen to Grizzly Experts NOW!
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Bear Matters has permission to post recently submitted letters to Premier Campbell and Minister Penner by Biologist, Wayne McCrory, RPBio
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:31:30 -0700
Dear Premier Campbell,
As you well know grizzly bear hunting is a
A consultation process was
Wed 30 Apr 2008
Bad Hunting-Haida Gwaii
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Bad Hunting

Warning: this video is disturbing.
A plea to stop killing Haida Gwaii’s ‘trophy’ bears.
Published: April 24, 2008
TheTyee.ca
A sign, in Spanish, at the entrance to the zoo near my apartment in Cali, Colombia, read TAKE PITY ON THE ANIMALS. A groundskeeper explained to me why the sign had been posted.
“We had a bear once, he was a disappointment. He wouldn’t wake up unless you threw rocks at him. Then he would rear on his hind legs and roar.
Mon 28 Apr 2008
Alberta Suspends Grizzly Hunt for Fourth Year
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http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5g_JLyfMj8mPs7ZkL0ft122McQ7xw CALGARY — Alberta will continue to suspend its controversial spring grizzly bear hunt into 2009 amid growing evidence that numbers of the iconic carnivore are significantly lower than earlier estimates.
But Sustainable Resource Development Minister Ted Morton won’t order a status review of the grizzly - which could see the bear listed as a threatened or endangered species - until a five-year official count is completed next year. “We’ll keep the moratorium in place until we get the numbers in,” Morton told The Canadian Press in an interview. An average of 14 Alberta grizzlies were “harvested” yearly until the province halted the hunt for an initial three-year period in 2006 in order to get a handle on how many of the bears still prowled its forests. Not only is 2008 the last scheduled year of the hunting ban, it is also the final year of a half-decade-long scientific survey that uses DNA from hair samples to count the province’s bears in five different geographical regions. And until the entire count is completed, Morton said he would not change the way Alberta classifies and treats its bears, despite being “sympathetic” to their plight. “I think the responsible approach is to wait for the research to establish the approximate grizzly bear population before implementing new policy,” said Morton.


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