THE SPRING BEAR HUNT SHOULD…

THE SPRING BEAR HUNT SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS:

• There is NO evidence that a spring bear hunt will reduce the number of “problem bears”

• Shooting bears in the spring, when they are vulnerable, hungry, and still have dependent cubs, is unethical and disgusting. They have done nothing wrong.

• Education, and changing human behavior is the only way proven to reduce negative interactions with bears.

• Despite the fact that hunters are not supposed to kill females with cubs, they do. The MNR estimates that AT LEAST 274 cubs were orphaned in the last spring bear hunt in 1999, and those are only the ones they know about. Those cubs do not stand a chance at survival without their mothers and will also die a horrible death of starvation.

• There has never been a black bear attack resulting in a fatality within a community anywhere in Canada. Of the few attacks on North America over half have involved unleashed dogs.

What "economic security" does this provide hunters? This is a made-up excuse their using to be able to once again indescriminately kill bears for the hunters own barbaric enjoyment.

SHOOTING BEARS IS NOT THE ANSWER!