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Time to end the grizzly bear "harvest"
March 12, 2010
The Province of British Columbia lets people kill grizzly bears for fun. This is an obscenity that must be stopped.
The grizzly bear is a magnificent animal, a symbol of this province's natural beauty, yet the government lets hunters kill it for sport. Minister of Environment Barry Penner should be ashamed of himself.
Grizzlies are under pressure from habitat destruction and salmon depletion and nobody knows how many remain. They have been extirpated from much of the Pacific Northwest, yet we are fortunate to have some left here in BC. In a few short weeks, rich American hunters will start blasting them to oblivion as the bears emerge hungry and bleary-eyed from their dens. Why? So they can peel off their hides and put them on their rec room walls.
Stop this abomination. Contact the David Suzuki Foundation, write your MLA, the Premier and Minister Penner. Do something, before it is too late.
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