Stop the Trophy Hunt

Pacific Wild’s office is located in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest, and a priority for us has always been to maintain a full time presence in the field. Our staff and volunteers spend a large portion of their time in the remote fjords and river valleys allowing us to monitor wildlife, industrial and other activity in many of the remote areas of the coast. Most of the coastal First Nations communities also have formal Guardian Watchmen or CoastWatch programs now, whose focus is to provide a regular patrol of their territories. It is heartening to know that these “eyes and ears” are out there, joining a large number of boaters and local residents who also watch out infringements to our wildlife and their habitat.

This work is critical. The B.C. government refuses to fund conservation officers in the Great Bear Rainforest. In fact, the Ministry of Environment refuses to fund a single full-time conservation officer along this huge coastline. Pacific Wild staff and volunteers continue to uncover major poaching and other illegal wildlife infractions.

Carnivores continue to be hunted for trophy in the Great Bear Rainforest. Pacific Wild is at the forefront of the campaign to end the sport hunt of bears, wolves and other large carnivores on the B.C. coast. Pacific Wild remains part of a collaborative effort between Coastal First Nations and its conservation partners working towards this unethical hunt. We continue to develop solution-based proposals that involve policy changes, compensation, mitigation and a long-term solution that work toward a day that wildlife on our coast will not be indiscriminately killed for trophy or sport.

Pacific Wild and an international network embarked upon an ad campaign in Spring 2010 pushing for an end to the sport hunt of bears in the Great Bear Rainforest.

Some of the ads that were published in newspapers throughout the province:

View pdfs of the above ads:
Ad A
Ad B
Ad C

Press Releases:
Feb 15, 2010
Feb 23, 2010