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Editor's Note: Below is and excerpt from the article "Hunters urged to help control geese". To read the full article, click here...
....The annual wildlife federation meeting also voted on several resolutions from its membership.
They voted in favour of a motion for the NBWF to ask the provincial
Department of Natural Resources to set up a program where trappers are
permitted to trap "nuisance bears" using the Aldrich type snare. Currently,
there are no provisions in New Brunswick for trapping bears.
CALGARY – The Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) is asking the Alberta government to once again suspend the hunting of grizzly bears to protect the threatened species.
Alberta’s spring grizzly hunt was stopped for three years beginning in 2006 but since that it has been suspended on a year-by-year basis.
No decision has been announced for 2011.
Well, it's that time of year again. Grizzly bears, some with young cubs in tow, have emerged from their dens only to be exposed to a slew of threats that imperil their long-term survival in B.C.: Hunters, mines, growing rural towns and an expanding web of roads and pipelines. Starting April 1, the bears' greatest threat - trophy hunters - will begin sighting their rifles with the hopes of catching a grizzly in the crosshairs. Without commenting on the ethics of this age-old custom, it's worth reflecting on the number of bears that die every year in B.C. at the hands of humans.
For the fifth year in a row there won't be a grizzly bear hunt this spring in Alberta, but conservation groups are split on how the province should ensure survival of the species.
The Alberta Wilderness Association said while it's happy the spring hunt was cancelled, it says there should be a five year moratorium on shooting grizzlies.
The association said it had hoped the province would announce it was putting off the hunt indefinitely.
Today new "Rules of the Hunt" legislation was enacted in Russia, which will effectively end the cruel hunting practice of rousting bears from their dens during winter hibernation and then shooting the bears. Often, this hunting practice left tiny bear cubs orphaned, and the cubs would quickly die of starvation or freeze to death.
Since 1995, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW - www.ifaw.org), has campaigned to end the winter den hunt and to rescue, rehabilitate and release orphan bear cubs back into the wild. To date, IFAW has successfully released more than 150 cubs from its rehabilitation center in Bubonitsy, Tver region.
Public outrage at the expedient slaughter of 100 inconvenient sled dogs is entirely appropriate and you don't have to be dog lover or an ethics professor to know why.
Breeding dogs for a life in which gruelling work in harness is the only respite from a miserable existence at the end of a two-metre chain and then exterminating them when business falls off is just plain wrong.
Council hasn't gone far enough to protect humans and animals from crossbows in Whistler's recreational areas, according to one concerned citizen.
Sylvia Dolson said the bylaw amendment passed at Tuesday's council meeting to ban bow hunting from Emerald Estates to Function Junction including municipal parks such as Lost Lake and the Whistler Interpretive Forest, isn't good enough.
"Mayor and council failed the residents of Whistler by not including some important recreation sites and trails (in the bylaw change)," said a disappointed Dolson after the meeting.
Nevada wildlife commissioners defied a contingent of bear hunt opponents Friday, voting 7-1 to hold a season this year for killing 20 black bears in Northern Nevada.
The vote confirmed a Dec. 4 decision to establish the state's first regulated bear hunt. The dissenting vote came from Charles Howell of Las Vegas, who represents sportsmen on the nine-member panel. He said the 20-bear limit was "ridiculously low," considering that California hunters were permitted to take 1,900 black bears last year.
An international treaty will set the first-ever limit on the number of polar bears Natives in Northwest Alaska can harvest while also legalizing polar bear hunting in Russia for the first time in decades.
Details are still being worked out, but the Russia-U.S. commission governed by the treaty agreed last spring to let Native subsistence hunters in each country take 29 bears, for a total of 58, from the Alaska-Chukotka polar bear population.
A Navato man will serve two years in prison for bear poaching in Glenn County, authorities said.
Wayne R. Barsch, 49, was sentenced Friday in Glenn County Superior Court and will be required to serve at least 85 percent of his sentence because of prior convictions, according to Patrick Foy, a spokesman for the state Department of Fish and Game.
LANSING -- State officials are considering a ban against chocolate in bear bait after scientists confirmed a cub died last fall from eating the treat near a northern Michigan bait pile.
Department of Natural Resources and Environment officials confirmed a bear cub found dead near a legal bait pile containing chocolate in the Red Oak bear management unit last year died of theobromine poisoning.
Theobromine is an alkaloid in chocolate and other substances that is toxic to some animals, such as dogs and bears.
Preliminary findings are in from the first six months of the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Urban Bear Study, and they show some surprising results. If anyone within the commission had been worried that these bears' citified environment might protect them from harvest, they need not worry any longer.
The game commission fitted the bears with GPS collars with cell phone technology which feeds researchers information in the form of text messages.
Nevada Voters Greatly Prefer Non-Lethal Methods of Managing Black Bears
A statewide survey conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, Inc. has revealed that Nevada voters strongly oppose hunting black bears with dogs and hunting bears in the spring when mother bears are nursing dependent cubs - both of which have been proposed as components of Nevada's first black bear trophy hunt.
Voters strongly agree, by 74 to 20 percent, that the state should prioritize non-lethal methods of solving conflicts between people and bears. The survey results were consistent in every geographic region of the state and in every political demographic, with all regions and all political affiliations in favor of non-lethal solutions.
DENVER -- Hibernating bears would be off-limits to Colorado hunters under a new rule state wildlife officials are considering following a debate over whether a 703-pound black bear was sleeping when it was killed in a cave late last year.
The enormous black bear shot in northwestern Colorado set what may be a state record. But it sparked public outrage after the hunter told a newspaper that he tracked the male bear to a cave and shot it after five hours waiting for the animal to emerge.
Editor's note: The following was written and released by the NJ Sierra Club.
The bear hunt may go beyond its limits with already 477 bears killed. It has been predicted that the hunters will be out in droves with tomorrow being the only weekend day of the hunt. The hunt may far exceed the goal of 700 bears and it could possibly reach up to 1000 bears. That would be more than a third of the black bear population in New Jersey. Now it is more of a recreational hunt than a management hunt.
That is not sustainable especially with a possible hunt for next year and future years will mean the bear population will end up disappearing. The black bear is a symbol that New Jersey still has wild places and should be humanely regulated, not hunted for trophies.
RENO, Nev. — Despite strong opposition from wildlife advocates, a state panel on Saturday unanimously voted to establish Nevada's first bear hunting season.
Before their 8-0 vote, state wildlife commissioners said the state's black bear population can support a hunt and hunting might reduce human-bear conflicts in the Reno-Lake Tahoe area by giving the bruins a fear of people.
With more than 600 grizzly bears inhabiting the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, one state official backs hunting the bear to manage the population in Wyoming.
“Excellent shape,” said Mark Bruscino, Wyoming Game and Fish Department bear management program supervisor, when asked how grizzly bears were doing in northwest Wyoming.
Seventy-one-year-old Leroy Lewis had a unique friend: an almost 900-pound black bear he had been feeding by hand for 17 years. He named the bear Bozo.
On the first day of Pennsylvania’s new archery season, a hunter shot Bozo dead in the animal's Poconos habitat. The Nov. 15 bear kill should have been a great trophy for hunter David Price, as Bozo is now the largest black bear ever taken down in state history.
ISSAQUAH, Wash. —
A Washington state Fish and Wildlife official says agents have identified a person they believe shot a young black bear in suburban Issaquah, partially paralyzing the animal. The bear was later euthanized.
As the state's first bear hunting season in five years is scheduled to begin in just a few weeks, the fight between the West Milford-based Bear Education and Resource (BEAR) Group and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) continues on in state Superior Court.
The BEAR Group, a bear activist organization staunchly opposed to a hunt, waged a lawsuit against the DEP's Division of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) and the state's Fish and Game Council (FGC) back in March, coming on the heels of the council's decision to put forth a black bear management policy that would include a bear hunt.
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