The Great Bear Rainforest needs your help!

The Great Bear Rainforest deserves the best protection in B.C. and for a while, it looked like everything was aligned to make that happen. Agreements had been signed and  protected areas legislated. Outside the protected areas, there was a work-plan in place to protect critical habitat for creatures as diverse as grizzly bears, northern goshawks and mountain goats.

A network of forests and critical habitat for five key species were supposed to be mapped as “reserves” by late 2009. As of August 2010, the reserves have still not been mapped, let alone implemented. Without these measures key species could still be at risk, jeopardising the rainforest’s ecological integrity. Take action.

Stop the Trophy Hunt!

Imagine the Great Bear Rainforest without bears. It's time for Environment Minister Barry Penner to cancel the trophy hunt and dedicate resources to understanding why there are so few grizzlies on our coast this year.

First Nations, environmental organizations and ecotourism operators report that they are seeing far fewer bears and hardly any bears with cubs in large parts of the Great Bear Rainforest. Last fall, numbers of salmon declined dramatically in the same areas just when bears needed the fish most in order to fatten up for their winter hibernation and nursing newborn cubs. Yet the fall trophy hunt continues, even in protected areas of the Great Bear Rainforest.

More than 11,000 grizzlies have been killed across the province of British Columbia since 1975 - 87 per cent by trophy hunters.

Stop the madness. Send a letter to BC Environment Minister Barry Penner today demanding the bear hunt be stopped.

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