Dr. Paul Paquet

Times Colonist, Comment: Wildlife-Management Reform is Long Overdue

by Barb Murray
August 11, 2017August 11, 2017

TIMES COLONIST AUGUST 11, 2017 http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/op-ed/comment-wildlife-management-reform-is-long-overdue-1.21795751 The underpinnings of contemporary wildlife management are political and ideological, largely at the expense of wildlife for the presumed benefit of people. Unsurprisingly, wildlife management in British Columbia is marked by an outdated mindset… Read More »Times Colonist, Comment: Wildlife-Management Reform is Long Overdue

B.C. Film Screenings of ‘Primeval: Enter the Incomappleux’ by Damien Gillis & Valhalla Wilderness Society

by Barb Murray
February 15, 2017February 18, 2017

Please sign and share Valhalla’s online petition to create the Selkirk Mountain Caribou Park – see petition and learn more here! https://www.change.org/p/save-bc-s-ancient-temperate-rainforest-primeval From award-winning documentary filmmaker Damien Gillis (Fractured Land, Oil in Eden) and Valhalla Wilderness Society comes a new film of… Read More »B.C. Film Screenings of ‘Primeval: Enter the Incomappleux’ by Damien Gillis & Valhalla Wilderness Society

Opinion: B.C. government wants grizzly bears dead

by Barb Murray
April 14, 2014

Province could buy out hunting tenures and create world’s largest reserve By Chris Genovali, Special to the Vancouver Sun April 14, 2014 http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Opinion+government+wants+grizzly+bears+dead/9737955/story.html We want these bears dead. This is the message the B.C. government’s “reallocation policy” sends to the… Read More »Opinion: B.C. government wants grizzly bears dead

Stephen Hume: Grizzly hunt fails test of science, experts say

by Barb Murray
March 23, 2014

In 2001, about 50 bears were killed. By 2007, the annual kill was more than 350. The government claims killing up to six per cent of grizzlies a year is sustainable based on its estimate of 15,000 bears, writes Stephen… Read More »Stephen Hume: Grizzly hunt fails test of science, experts say