Canada is rated as a D for world animal protection index, which is a poor rating. Research has shown that animals are sentient beings. The fact that anyone thinks terrorizing and killing an animal for fun is abhorrent.
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Ontario needs to ban all bear hunting, effective immediately. Killing innocent species with high powered rifles is never an effective conservation strategy. It's time to end the killing and start working to rewild this beautiful province.
In my opinion there shouldn't be Black Bear hunting allowed at all! It's enough that people hunt Deer and Moose, why do Bears need to be hunted also? Leave the poor anumals alone!
Please do not reinstate the spring bear hunt. We do not need more non residents baiting these wonderful animals with garbage and then shooting essentially a trained target. This is not ethical, read the literature, hunters are incapable of distinguishing males from females.
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Ecojustice Canada supports the objections of Animal Justice and Ontario Nature in their comment letters regarding the proposed changes to the black bear hunting regulations to permanently reinstate the spring black bear hunt (ERO No. 019-1112).
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I do not agree with the Spring bear hunt and believe it should be discontinued. Very few hunters can determine whether a bear is male or female. The regulations forbid killing a female with cubs but many times a mother will forage alone while leaving her cubs in a safe place.
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I sincerely urge you to end the spring bear hunt.
There is nothing virtuous about taking joy in needlessly killing and innocent animal minding its own business. What a barbaric practice!
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A spring bear hunt is unnecessary and provides no significant economic benefit to the province. Instead it endangers young bear cubs that require it's mother to survive and upsets the ecological balance already existing in nature.
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This is an incredible idea for both hunters Who are unable to participate in fall hunts and will further Boost Canada’s economy regarding wild life management and tourism
I think that opening up a regular spring bear hunting season is not a good idea. There have been articles saying hunters would have a very difficult time identifying mothers, so this would put many cubs at risk of being orphaned!
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Unless you are first nations, hunting is just an excuse to kill something pure and simple, and this is wrong. If you want to go out and enjoy nature, do that. If you hunt, you're not out to enjoy nature, you are there to interfere with it. Stop hunting
Hunters often claim they can tell if a female bear is nursing her young. But, five 'Fish and Wildlife' staff in the U.S. seem to disagree. In a discussion paper, they wrote:
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I object to the continuation of the spring black bear season beyond 2020 for residents and non-residents in all Wildlife Management Units where there is a fall black bear season. The annual spring season from May 1st to June 15th should end on June 15th, 2020.
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I do not feel you are accurate in your conclusions to reinstate the spring bear hunt.
In this day and age of conservation ,and wildlife’s existence along with humans,I strongly disagree with
this policy to reinstate the spring bear hunt.
Sincerely,an Ontario resident
I strongly disagree with this cruel and unnecessary decision by the Ontario government to bring back the Spring Bear Hunt. This will not help the ecology of our province, will lead to bears being orphaned, and will lead to errors by uninformed hunters.
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