… In
Victoria again last week, Marr looked intent, yet weary, as he held up the
leaked document (by Dionys de Leeuw - see 1998-09-18 Global and Mail
article)…
The
document backs Marr’s belief that the ministry has overestimated BC’s
grizzly bear population…
“We
must begin to protect our bears today,” Marr says. “Our objective is to
prevent them from becoming endangered… It’s a vicious spiral… It is a
double-edged sword for a species to be declared endangered, because it
drives up the black market value, thus encouraging more poaching. We can
see that cloud on the horizon,” he says…
Part
of the problem, he says, is that BC’s hunting policy is set by three
bodies - the provincial Environment Ministry, the BC Wildlife Federation
and the BC Guide-Outfitters’ Association, all of which, Marr charges, has
vested interests in hunting.
Again,
de Leeuw’s report backs Marr up, saying “BC’s decision regarding grizzly
bear allocation have almost exclusively accommodated the interests of
trophy hunters, who make up less than one tenth of one percent of the
people.”
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