https://bit.ly/3cxNamV Link to article in Calgary Herald Spring is a time of hope and celebration of new life. A grizzly bear family just emerged from hibernation and ventured into their new world, full of wonder. Three little cubs were about to… Read More »Action Needed: Trio of Orphan Grizzly Cubs in Calgary Need The Public’s Help!
article from The Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2020/04/21/Hunting-And-Fishing-On-The-Rise-During-Pandemic/ Bears Matter Action Alert! TAKE ACTION to help Bears in BC Please Write: [email protected] – Minister Doug Donaldson ( in charge of the Hunting and Trapping regulations) and [email protected] Minister Adrian Dix ( Public health)… Read More »Action Alert To Stop Killing BC Bears in Spring! 2020 Unacceptable that Approx 5000 bear tags sold!
Facebook Page: Stop the Grizzly Killing – Please Like and Share! After a long winter, bears emerge from dens to face Trophy Killers. They have no chance. It’s time for this to end British Columbia! Not BEAUTIFUL BC, NOT SUPER… Read More »B.C’s Stop the Grizzly Killing Facebook Campaign! Deadline May 9, 2017!
Hello B.C. Bear Friends, A gift to ALL! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLpyFH1Y-aA&feature=youtu.be A 46 minute long video and so well worth the view. We must really LISTEN carefully to Charlie Russell’s words and step up ourselves to tell the true story about grizzlies. We must NOW take Charlie Russell’s life’s message… Read More »Charlie Russell: Discoverying the True Nature of the Grizzly Bear, YouTube Video March’16
Grizzly bear viewing is a growing tourism business that brings in millions of dollars to the B.C. economy. PHOTO: Jonathan Hayward/CP
While the world has been gripped by the sad fate of Cecil the Lion, shot earlier this week by an American trophy hunter on the plains of Africa and left to die, British Columbia has many of its very own Cecils quietly bringing millions of dollars into the provincial economy.
Over the last two decades, grizzly bear viewing in B.C. has grown from a tiny niche business to one estimated be worth $30 million in direct revenue to the economy in 2012, according to the Centre for Responsible Travel’s study conducted with Stanford University.
This is more than 10 times as much as the industry of killing bears for sport.
And yet, this industry is under pressure from trophy hunting.
Read More »B.C. Has its Own Version of Cecil the Lion by Julius Strauss and Kevin Smith
Relaxing grizzly bear. Photo by Andrew S. Wright. FOI investigation reveals that senior B.C. bureaucrats seized on the province’s rising grizzly bear numbers —disputed by researchers—to “mitigate” the impacts of mining Mychaylo Prystupa Mar 13th, 2015 Senior B.C. wildlife bureaucrats seized upon the… Read More »Grizzly bears seen as gold for mining, B.C. gov’t emails reveal Vancouver Observer
