Take Action on B.C.'s Trophy Hunt

Pacific Wild, Coastal First Nations and The Humane Society International continue to work for an end to the sport hunt of bears.

Progress is being made but we need your help. British Columbia, Canada is the host of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Help make a difference. The “Faltering Light” visual petition is a high quality book containing an open letter to the BC government requesting that trophy hunting of grizzly bears is stopped, essays from leading environmentalists, sepia-toned bear photographs and YOUR SIGNATURES calling for an end to the trophy hunt. The book will be delivered to Premier Gordon Campbell & Environment Minister Barry Penner before the trophy hunt resumes in April. Sign the "Faltering Light" visual petition.

Help make a difference. The “Faltering Light” visual petition is a high quality book containing an open letter to the BC government requesting that trophy hunting of grizzly bears is stopped, essays from leading environmentalists, sepia-toned bear photographs and YOUR SIGNATURES calling for an end to the trophy hunt. The book will be delivered to Premier Gordon Campbell & Environment Minister Barry Penner before the trophy hunt resumes in April.

Sign the "Faltering Light" visual petition.

Contact the government of British Columbia and the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games—let them know that you will consider avoiding the Olympic Games as long as trophy bear hunting continues in the Great Bear Rainforest. Please act now—your voice is vital to saving the bears.

Click here to send Premier Campbell, Minister of the Environment Barry Penner and your MLA
a letter telling them what you think of the trophy hunt.

Click here to send VANOC a letter telling them that the sport hunt of bears is not an event B.C. should be celebrating.

To help make your voice heard, please consider CC:ing
your letter to the media. Contact information for media and other elected officials can be found on our main
TAKE ACTION page.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest is one of the greatest tracts of intact temperate rainforest left on Earth. It is home to thousands of species of plants, birds, and animals including black bears, grizzlies, and Spirit bears.

You might think that here, the bears could live and thrive in peace. But trophy hunters have set their sights on the vulnerable animals, shooting them with rifles and cross bows as they feed near the shoreline and on salmon streams. It is shocking to think that even grizzly bears, the second slowest reproducing land mammal in North America, are routinely killed in the Great Bear Rainforest - even in protected areas. In opposing this cruel and scientifically indefensible killing, Pacific Wild, the Humane Society International/Canada and the bear viewing industry proudly stand with Coastal First Nations, which have long spoken out against the killing of bears for cultural and ethical reasons. Moreover, First Nations communities can earn far more from responsible bear-watching ecotourism than destructive and cruel bear hunting.

Read more about the BC Trophy Hunt