1998-08-02
The Citizen, Cowichan Valley, BC
by Gerry Giroux
Anthony Marr got more than he bargained for when he came to town (Duncan)
Wednesday night�
Marr
presented a video and slideshow on poaching of endangered animals around
the world� filled with staggering facts and statistics about the decline
of many of the species especially the tiger�
He
tied the grizzly bear situation in with the plight of the tiger. Marr
showed reports saying wild tigers will be extinct by 2005 due to poaching,
habitat loss and other cause.
If a
ban was put on hunting them when their numbers were roughly the same as
those of the grizzly today, maybe the tiger would stand a better chance of
survival�
The
hunters in the audience didn�t like this one bit. Ray Demarchi voiced the
loudest opposition. Demarchi is the retired chief of wildlife conservation
for the BC government and one of the authors of the provincial grizzly
bear conservation strategy that Marr was citing as allowing an excessive
hunt of grizzlies�
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