When I last checked people don't hunt grizzlies for food -- it is purely for sport. In such a case where there is any doubt as to the species being in danger there should not be a hunt. There is no reason to destroy a noble species (or any species) for fun.
Grizzlies' fate in panel's hands
Group hopes for protection of Alberta's bears
By Richard Cuthbertson, Calgary Herald
A s Alberta's Endangered Species Conservation Committee meets today to evaluate the status of grizzlies in the province, one major hunting and fishing organization says a limited hunt in some areas of the province wouldn't threaten the iconic bear.
But at least one conservation group expects the committee to recommend the grizzly be declared a threatened species and points to the results of a massive Alberta study released last week.
The five-year study, which used DNA methods to count the bears, estimates there are 691 grizzlies in Alberta, a population that conservation groups say is too low and means the species needs legal protection.
"The science is really clear that grizzly bears are in trouble in parts of Alberta," says Nigel Douglas with the Alberta Wilderness Association.
The debate about how long the grizzly bear hunt ban should be extended has also been reignited, with the minister of Sustainable Resource Development, Mel Knight, acknowledging it has become a "polarized" issue.
A ban on hunting has been in place since 2006 and will continue until the end of this year. After that, no decision has been made.
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Adam Rutherford in "When Humans Roam the Earth" posted in the Guardian on 9 March, suggests that we may be in the midst of a mass extinction involving a third of all species. Loss of habitat and food and water sources due to rapid climate change is bad enough. We certainly don't need to compound the problem by "sport" hunting animals while they are struggling to adapt just as we are.
I don't think many people in Canada know the Asians like to eat bear paw. Why? It supposedly makes men more verial. Asians have killed off their bear, tigar and others for this reason but now, pay huge sums of money for the illigal hunt bear of bear in North America. Imagine killing a huge animal and taking the paw. Is it a rule we do not talk about this because we are talking about human male genital excitment?
Anyong,
Good point and one I had forgotten about. Truth be told, that's yet another reason to limiting hunting -- the idea that the death of a magnificient creature is justified by a phony remedy for ED is grotesque,
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