In the current Anthropocene…

In the current Anthropocene era, we humans are the cause of the sixth mass extinction. We are killing animals at an unprecedented rate; removing their habitat from them for our own uses; and polluting land, air, and water, all at the cost of non-human species.

What is the need for a bear hunt? There is none. Humans do not 'need' anything from a dead bear to survive on this planet.

Given the fact that we have irrevocably altered the biomass distribution on this planet, we should stop our 'business as usual' approach to plundering our planet and its non-human species, and end these completely unnecessary hunts. This quote, from the publication linked below, sums up the biomass issue:

"Today, the biomass of humans (≈0.06 Gt C; SI Appendix, Table S9) and the biomass of livestock (≈0.1 Gt C, dominated by cattle and pigs; SI Appendix, Table S10) far surpass that of wild mammals, which has a mass of ≈0.007 Gt C (SI Appendix, Table S11)."

Source: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6506

If this was a hunt that targetted dogs (to which bears are phylogenetically related), there would be loud objection, if not outrage, as there is for dog culling on some Native territories ('reservations'). This is speciesism at its worst: to believe that one life matters more or less than any other.

Please end this proposed hunt once and for all and leave the bears alone.

Thank you