Dear Friends, A New Facebook page has been launched for an event in Victoria called “Save BC Bears”. Please help spread the word by face to face, by email, by Facebook – whatever works. (Go to – www.facebook.com/SaveBCBears) “Save BC Bears” is… Read More »NEW SaveBCBears Facebook Page and Rally Event Feb 15, 2014
By Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun September 6, 2013 Comment 175 Posted from: http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Stephen+Hume+hunting+grizzly+head+paws+trophies/8875523/story.html Screen capture from Bear Witness: a film by BC’s Coastal First Nations. Photograph by: Bears Forever , … It’s time to end the miserable,… Read More »Stephen Hume: It’s not hunting, and a grizzly head and paws are not trophies
News Alert! Bernard Callebaut Chocolate Store in Country Club Centre in Nanaimo is now continuing the sale of Warm Buddy Products to raise money for the Bears Matter Fund! Half the proceeds from the sales will go to bears!… Read More »Bears Matter Fundraiser Continues ALL Year Round at Country Club Centre in Nanaimo
A Kermode bear, better known as the Spirit Bear, is seen fishing in the Riordan River on Gribbell Island. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bear-watching-more-profitable-than-bear-hunting-says-study-1.2488311 Jan 08,2014 There is more money in looking at bears than there is in shooting them — 12… Read More »Bear watching more profitable than bear hunting, says study
From: http://www.dailytownsman.com/breaking_news/238879431.html by CAROLYN GRANT January 06, 2014 As reported in the Bulletin/Townsman in December, the provincial government is proposing that a limited entry hunt for grizzly bears could be reopened in Management Units 4-20 (the St. Mary Valley and north… Read More »Grizzly Numbers or Grizzly Behavior?
A grizzly is captured in its natural habitat using a remote camera installed in the upper Squamish Valley. The number of grizzly bears killed in B.C. exceeded government targets in half the areas where the province permitted hunting of the… Read More »Larry Pynn, Hunting of grizzlies, especially females, exceeds B.C. government targets: new study
