Black bears are one of the most beautiful creatures we have on the Peninsula. To hunt them to me is cowardly. Most bears only become a “nuisance” because of people being careless with their garbage, food, etc. and building on their habitat
Not only will some Cubs be orphaned but in our area of nipissing district where we live miles and miles from any town hunters come to hunt bears with hounds.
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Enough with these barbaric practices. Often, humans think culling is the answer to population problems...but it's not because we are not part of that 'food chain'. We disrupt the natural order of things at the expense of every other species and to the 'advantage' of our own.
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Considering hunters shoot each other every year, reference father and daughter fatally shot by hunters mistaken for deer, you CANNOT tell me they will be able spot a nursing mother or not. The hunters are lying to you, and you are apparently very gullable.
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I believe the spring bear hunt is a great management, recreation, tradition and economic generating tool. This hunt should stay open because I know that love for this hunt is alive and well.
Humans destroy the habitats of wild animals so they can build more houses, shopping malls and more paved streets and highways. Animals have at least as much right to live their lives as people. Killing any animal for "sport" is barbaric.
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I don't like hunting at all, but a springtime hunt does not make sense due to mothers giving birth. You cannot always tell a male from a female, and orphaning any animal is just cruel.
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My wife bought a parcel in Canada and I purchased one too so we both had a place to hunt. We don’t feel that it’s fair to change the regulations now. The proposal only benefits outfitters, and it’s not fair to us as landowners.
Skip the fines for killing female bears and just go straight to the humane practice of NOT hunting Bears. Must we hunt all species to extinction? the decision here is obvious. If the black bears are dangerous to people then the people should stay out of their habitat.
Not only will some Cubs be orphaned but in our area of nipissing district where we live miles and miles from any town hunters come to hunt bears with hounds.
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Stop the spring bear hunt!
There is no cultural or economic justification for allowing hunters to lure hungry black bears using bait and shoot these unsuspecting animals for sport.
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Please continue the spring black bear hunt.
As a long established hunting tradition, the spring bear hunt provided individual, social, cultural, economic and biological benefits.
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This spring black bear hunt is cruel and unethical leaving young black bears that need their moms orphaned. This needs to stop. I understand that there are protections for nursing mother bears which is great on paper but it is something that works very poorly in the field. Please stop this!
Black bear hunting should be liberal. Spring bear season is sustainable. I want the MNRF to base decisions on science not centred around the vocal minority. Please move forward with these changes. Lower bear populations may improve the conditions for moose as well.
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We should not go forward with a spring bear hunt. As far as I recall one bear was found with some calf reminants in its stomach and this has given hunters the opportunity to ask to slaughter bears. Ford is now even cutting red tape on bears. When will this stop?
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Until the science is sound around ensuring cubs will not be orphaned, left to die, alone and inhumanely the hunt should be stalled until further measures can be taken. Hunters claims of being able to tell if a female is nursing are untrue and unfounded.
I feel like opening up the spring bear hunt will be the most detrimental all of the threats facing the black bear. The bears are already facing habitat loss, changing climate, food scarcity and so much more.
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