Help Stop "Bear Baiting and Shooting" in Canada
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Help stop this "trophy-kill sport"
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"Bear baiting and shooting". A "technique" among many hunters in Canada.
What does it consist of? Hunters place bait in a barrel to attract the bears, and when these intelligent, gentle, and curious animals come to eat, they are shot often several times before they die. Many bears escape wounded and face a slow death from blood loss, gangrene, or other infections, dehydration, or starvation.
Mother bears who are killed leave behind orphaned cubs who are completely dependent on them for food during their first 17 months, and when left in the wilderness alone, they often cannot survive. In many areas there are few restrictions against shooting mother bears with nursing cubs, leading to the destruction of entire families.
Because of the barbaric nature of bear baiting, it has been banned in British Columbia and many U.S. states. Many Canadians and numerous hunting and conservation groups agree that this is a cruel and unsportsmanlike practice, yet black bears continue to be mercilessly slaughtered in Canada.
Here is a link to a video I found on youtube of bear baiting and shooting.
Please be advised that the video is VERY graphic.
Please sign this petition to help stop this cruel act. Thanks in advance.
What does it consist of? Hunters place bait in a barrel to attract the bears, and when these intelligent, gentle, and curious animals come to eat, they are shot often several times before they die. Many bears escape wounded and face a slow death from blood loss, gangrene, or other infections, dehydration, or starvation.
Mother bears who are killed leave behind orphaned cubs who are completely dependent on them for food during their first 17 months, and when left in the wilderness alone, they often cannot survive. In many areas there are few restrictions against shooting mother bears with nursing cubs, leading to the destruction of entire families.
Because of the barbaric nature of bear baiting, it has been banned in British Columbia and many U.S. states. Many Canadians and numerous hunting and conservation groups agree that this is a cruel and unsportsmanlike practice, yet black bears continue to be mercilessly slaughtered in Canada.
Here is a link to a video I found on youtube of bear baiting and shooting.
Please be advised that the video is VERY graphic.
Please sign this petition to help stop this cruel act. Thanks in advance.
"Bear baiting and shooting". A "technique" among many hunters in Canada.
What does it consist of? Hunters place bait in a barrel to attract the bears, and when these intelligent, gentle, and curious animals come to eat, they are shot often several times before they die. Many bears escape wounded and face a slow death from blood loss, gangrene, or other infections, dehydration, or starvation.
Mother bears who are killed leave behind orphaned cubs who are completely dependent on them for food during their first 17 months, and when left in the wilderness alone, they often cannot survive. In many areas there are few restrictions against shooting mother bears with nursing cubs, leading to the destruction of entire families.
Because of the barbaric nature of bear baiting, it has been banned in British Columbia and many U.S. states. Many Canadians and numerous hunting and conservation groups agree that this is a cruel and unsportsmanlike practice, yet black bears continue to be mercilessly slaughtered in Canada.
Here is a link to a video I found on youtube of bear baiting and shooting.
Please be advised that the video is VERY graphic.
Please sign this petition to help stop this cruel act. Thanks in advance.
What does it consist of? Hunters place bait in a barrel to attract the bears, and when these intelligent, gentle, and curious animals come to eat, they are shot often several times before they die. Many bears escape wounded and face a slow death from blood loss, gangrene, or other infections, dehydration, or starvation.
Mother bears who are killed leave behind orphaned cubs who are completely dependent on them for food during their first 17 months, and when left in the wilderness alone, they often cannot survive. In many areas there are few restrictions against shooting mother bears with nursing cubs, leading to the destruction of entire families.
Because of the barbaric nature of bear baiting, it has been banned in British Columbia and many U.S. states. Many Canadians and numerous hunting and conservation groups agree that this is a cruel and unsportsmanlike practice, yet black bears continue to be mercilessly slaughtered in Canada.
Here is a link to a video I found on youtube of bear baiting and shooting.
Please be advised that the video is VERY graphic.
Please sign this petition to help stop this cruel act. Thanks in advance.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
I was shocked to learn that bear baiting and shooting is still allowed in most Canadian provinces, despite the fact that it is condemned by the majority of Canadians - and by numerous hunting and conservation groups - as being cruel and unsportsmanlike. We ask you to take action against this form of animal cruelty towards these magnificent animals. Let these animals live in freedom with their cubs instead of being shot, often wounded and left to die suffering just for their fur, leaving many families torn and cubs left to fend for themselves in this cruel world.
Thank you in advance for reading this letter.
I was shocked to learn that bear baiting and shooting is still allowed in most Canadian provinces, despite the fact that it is condemned by the majority of Canadians - and by numerous hunting and conservation groups - as being cruel and unsportsmanlike. We ask you to take action against this form of animal cruelty towards these magnificent animals. Let these animals live in freedom with their cubs instead of being shot, often wounded and left to die suffering just for their fur, leaving many families torn and cubs left to fend for themselves in this cruel world.
Thank you in advance for reading this letter.
We signed the "Help Stop "Bear Baiting and Shooting" in Canada" petition!
# 562:
2:41 am PST, Nov 1,
Laurence Wuillemin, Germany
I tought Canadian people were civilizated people
I tought Canadian people were civilizated people
# 561:
5:05 pm PDT, Oct 29,
Gabriela Zambrana, Bolivia
# 560:
6:11 am PDT, Oct 29,
Monique R, Canada
ARRÊTEZ LA CRUAUTÉ AUX OURS !!!
ARRÊTEZ LA CRUAUTÉ AUX OURS !!!
# 559:
11:47 pm PDT, Oct 28,
Linda Gillespie, Canada
# 558:
2:31 pm PDT, Oct 28,
Jo Potts, United Kingdom
Stop it now!!! There is no excuse for this cruel waste of these wonderful animals lives. If you are hard up sell your body not some poor defenceless bears. Pick up a camera not a gun!!!
Stop it now!!! There is no excuse for this cruel waste of these wonderful animals lives. If you are hard up sell your body not some poor defenceless bears. Pick up a camera not a gun!!!
# 557:
2:03 pm PDT, Oct 28,
Michael Cox, United Kingdom
We in the u.k do not get why you in the states/canada think you have the god given right to shoot to kill some of the remaining substantial wildlife we have left on the planet!! It is not yours!! Its all of ours. We would never allow this to happen here. Not in this century. It makes you all look very arrogant and a bit stupid. Why would anyone think it fun to shoot a bloody bear!! Where is the plus side?
We in the u.k do not get why you in the states/canada think you have the god given right to shoot to kill some of the remaining substantial wildlife we have left on the planet!! It is not yours!! Its all of ours. We would never allow this to happen here. Not in this century. It makes you all look very arrogant and a bit stupid. Why would anyone think it fun to shoot a bloody bear!! Where is the plus side?
# 556:
5:01 pm PDT, Oct 17,
Nancy Glaviano, Utah
# 555:
4:44 am PDT, Oct 17,
Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 554:
8:53 pm PDT, Oct 14,
Christina Anderson, Canada
# 553:
11:55 am PDT, Oct 7,
Sylvie Demers, Canada
Il faut absolument cessez cette façon barbare de tuer nos ours !
Il faut absolument cessez cette façon barbare de tuer nos ours !
# 552:
10:50 am PDT, Sep 27,
Debby Meekison, Canada
Trophy killing is needless and should be against the law. Bear baiting is not HUNTING it is for the mere weak and unintelligent that think they are hunters . Very unsportsmen like.
Trophy killing is needless and should be against the law. Bear baiting is not HUNTING it is for the mere weak and unintelligent that think they are hunters . Very unsportsmen like.
# 551:
10:59 pm PDT, Sep 2,
Name not displayed, Canada
I live in british columbia and to be honest i hunt and being a hunter it bugs me that bear baiting isnt banned world wide. Lets face it that isnt a sport there is no skill involved and it isnt a hunt.The problem is that there are many hunters i no that hunt bear but wont sign a petiition because they belive this is a gateway for animal activist to slowy get rid of hunting all together. There has to be a way so hunters that do agree baiting should be banned wont think that some radical group is out to destroy there passion for hunting. Hunting has always been a big topic for animal group concerns they have there thoughts and feelings and so do the hunters but to me it doesnt take a animal activist group to no that bear baiting is not a sport or a hunt that you have to use your knowlege unless you think that it takes great knowlege to decide what your gonna use for bait that day filling your bait station.
I live in british columbia and to be honest i hunt and being a hunter it bugs me that bear baiting isnt banned world wide. Lets face it that isnt a sport there is no skill involved and it isnt a hunt.The problem is that there are many hunters i no that hunt bear but wont sign a petiition because they belive this is a gateway for animal activist to slowy get rid of hunting all together. There has to be a way so hunters that do agree baiting should be banned wont think that some radical group is out to destroy there passion for hunting. Hunting has always been a big topic for animal group concerns they have there thoughts and feelings and so do the hunters but to me it doesnt take a animal activist group to no that bear baiting is not a sport or a hunt that you have to use your knowlege unless you think that it takes great knowlege to decide what your gonna use for bait that day filling your bait station.
# 550:
10:59 pm PDT, Sep 2,
Name not displayed, Canada
I live in british columbia and to be honest i hunt and being a hunter it bugs me that bear baiting isnt banned world wide. Lets face it that isnt a sport there is no skill involved and it isnt a hunt.The problem is that there are many hunters i no that hunt bear but wont sign a petiition because they belive this is a gateway for animal activist to slowy get rid of hunting all together. There has to be a way so hunters that do agree baiting should be banned wont think that some radical group is out to destroy there passion for hunting. Hunting has always been a big topic for animal group concerns they have there thoughts and feelings and so do the hunters but to me it doesnt take a animal activist group to no that bear baiting is not a sport or a hunt that you have to use your knowlege unless you think that it takes great knowlege to decide what your gonna use for bait that day filling your bait station.
I live in british columbia and to be honest i hunt and being a hunter it bugs me that bear baiting isnt banned world wide. Lets face it that isnt a sport there is no skill involved and it isnt a hunt.The problem is that there are many hunters i no that hunt bear but wont sign a petiition because they belive this is a gateway for animal activist to slowy get rid of hunting all together. There has to be a way so hunters that do agree baiting should be banned wont think that some radical group is out to destroy there passion for hunting. Hunting has always been a big topic for animal group concerns they have there thoughts and feelings and so do the hunters but to me it doesnt take a animal activist group to no that bear baiting is not a sport or a hunt that you have to use your knowlege unless you think that it takes great knowlege to decide what your gonna use for bait that day filling your bait station.
# 549:
12:25 pm PDT, Sep 2,
Nadia Jabra, Canada
If only, if just only these disgusting excuses of human beings could be the bait, that's a video I'd pay millions to see. It angers me to the no end that with all the education that we have and as far as we have come as a now "civilized society" things such as animal baiting takes place and even justified. We are not over populated by animals but by the savages that hurt them.
If only, if just only these disgusting excuses of human beings could be the bait, that's a video I'd pay millions to see. It angers me to the no end that with all the education that we have and as far as we have come as a now "civilized society" things such as animal baiting takes place and even justified. We are not over populated by animals but by the savages that hurt them.
# 548:
12:35 pm PDT, Sep 1,
Catie Porter, Massachusetts
# 547:
7:05 am PDT, Aug 28,
Alexia Reis, Portugal
# 546:
12:24 am PDT, Aug 17,
Name not displayed, Canada
# 545:
1:45 pm PDT, Aug 8,
Love Animals Too, New York
# 544:
9:51 pm PDT, Aug 5,
Feisty McLeod, Canada
This is way beyond inhumane. It stinks of poor sportsmanship and a lack of concern for cruelty. It is the act of a selfish psychopath. Look, if you need to eat meat, and you want to kill a bear, do it in a humane way. This method fails the test on all counts.
This is way beyond inhumane. It stinks of poor sportsmanship and a lack of concern for cruelty. It is the act of a selfish psychopath. Look, if you need to eat meat, and you want to kill a bear, do it in a humane way. This method fails the test on all counts.
# 543:
6:53 pm PDT, Jul 23,
Cyn Sopel, Canada
This is absolutely shocking and as a Canadian, I am totally disgusted and ashamed!! And to the guy from Missouri, #540, there is no food taken out of anybody's mouth concerning income! It's no different than the seal hunt on our East Coast. There are plenty of other sources of income!! (Also, after watching and listening to the video, it is clear that those hunters were AMERICAN!!) STOP THIS BARBARIC AND CRUEL SLAUGHTER NOW!!
This is absolutely shocking and as a Canadian, I am totally disgusted and ashamed!! And to the guy from Missouri, #540, there is no food taken out of anybody's mouth concerning income! It's no different than the seal hunt on our East Coast. There are plenty of other sources of income!! (Also, after watching and listening to the video, it is clear that those hunters were AMERICAN!!) STOP THIS BARBARIC AND CRUEL SLAUGHTER NOW!!
# 542:
3:11 pm PDT, Jul 22,
JoAnna Birdsong, California
# 541:
2:42 pm PDT, Jul 22,
Cheryl Bibby, Canada
# 540:
1:47 pm PDT, Jul 22,
Dumb Petition, Missouri
what a stupid petition. are you kidding me?? lets just take the food right out of those people's mouth that count on bear hunting for their income. this is ridiculous!
what a stupid petition. are you kidding me?? lets just take the food right out of those people's mouth that count on bear hunting for their income. this is ridiculous!
# 539:
9:19 pm PDT, Jul 21,
Samantha Raftery, Canada
morally and ethically this is just wrong. Groups fighting the province's bear trophy hunt pulled in some heavy-duty support when famed wildlife artist Robert Bateman and renowned wildlife researcher Jane Goodall teamed up to ask the province to stop the hunt. hopefully, these well respected people will be listened to by a government not friendly to our wildlife. To learn now that the government continues to allow the sport hunt of grizzly bears and even the rare coastal black bear that carries the recessive gene that allows the spirit bear to exist is shocking," said Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation. Bateman, who lives on Saltspring Island, said trophy hunting of bears is an unforgivable act of wildlife destruction. "Killing these bears has nothing to do with subsistence," Bateman said. "Grizzly and black bears are an integral part of our landscape and the ecosystem of the Great Bear Rainforest and there can be no justification for killing these animals just for sport." The province must listen to the growing number of protests from British Columbians and First Nations and put a stop to the hunt, Bateman said
morally and ethically this is just wrong. Groups fighting the province's bear trophy hunt pulled in some heavy-duty support when famed wildlife artist Robert Bateman and renowned wildlife researcher Jane Goodall teamed up to ask the province to stop the hunt. hopefully, these well respected people will be listened to by a government not friendly to our wildlife. To learn now that the government continues to allow the sport hunt of grizzly bears and even the rare coastal black bear that carries the recessive gene that allows the spirit bear to exist is shocking," said Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation. Bateman, who lives on Saltspring Island, said trophy hunting of bears is an unforgivable act of wildlife destruction. "Killing these bears has nothing to do with subsistence," Bateman said. "Grizzly and black bears are an integral part of our landscape and the ecosystem of the Great Bear Rainforest and there can be no justification for killing these animals just for sport." The province must listen to the growing number of protests from British Columbians and First Nations and put a stop to the hunt, Bateman said
# 538:
3:48 pm PDT, Jul 10,
Michelle Heathman, California
You can judge a nation by the way it treats it's animals. Stop this inhumane act.
You can judge a nation by the way it treats it's animals. Stop this inhumane act.
# 537:
12:38 am PDT, Jul 9,
Anne-Lise Holmberg, Denmark
# 536:
3:49 pm PDT, Jul 7,
Sarah Salyer, Michigan
# 535:
6:51 am PDT, Jun 25,
Claudine GRAFF, Belgium
# 534:
3:56 pm PDT, Jun 18,
Aaron Ward, Virginia
Like the videos I have seen of trapped cats that are shot while hiding under a car, I find this type of "hunting" to be very disturbing. How can we expect to be able to evolve when certain people get pleasure from caring so little for life?
Like the videos I have seen of trapped cats that are shot while hiding under a car, I find this type of "hunting" to be very disturbing. How can we expect to be able to evolve when certain people get pleasure from caring so little for life?
# 533:
12:37 pm PDT, May 30,
Katherine Nelson, New Jersey
# 532:
10:54 am PDT, May 27,
Josefina Fuccaro, Uruguay
An insane "game" for the people more stupid and sick of the world!!!!
An insane "game" for the people more stupid and sick of the world!!!!
# 531:
6:39 pm PDT, May 25,
Virginia Hazelwood, West Virginia
Please stop this madness.
Please stop this madness.
# 530:
7:23 am PDT, May 12,
Carine Bonin, Belgium
# 529:
8:10 am PDT, May 11,
LORIC MARINA, France
# 527:
7:14 am PDT, May 11,
Simon Fayet, France
# 526:
7:13 am PDT, May 11,
France Fayet, France
# 528:
7:10 am PDT, May 11,
Daniel Feret, France
# 525:
5:18 am PDT, May 10,
Christine JACQUELET, France
# 524:
2:53 am PDT, May 10,
Jeannine Lafon, France
# 523:
2:02 am PDT, May 10,
Carol Bouteraon, Belgium
# 522:
8:25 am PDT, May 9,
Carolina Martinez, Spain
# 521:
8:16 am PDT, May 9,
ERRIQUEZ Corinne, France
# 520:
7:34 am PDT, May 9,
Jozon Florence, France
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# 519:
7:03 am PDT, May 9,
Carlino Marianna, France
# 517:
6:02 am PDT, May 9,
BRANISLAV STOJKOVIC, France
# 518:
6:00 am PDT, May 9,
SYLVIA STOJKOVIC, France
# 516:
12:06 pm PDT, May 6,
Angie Whiteman, United Kingdom
# 515:
4:57 pm PDT, May 3,
Barry Bastian, Pennsylvania
# 514:
5:47 pm PDT, Apr 15,
Constant Wanham, Massachusetts
# 513:
2:57 pm PDT, Apr 7,
Anne Thompson, United Kingdom
# 512:
11:05 am PDT, Apr 4,
Rhonda Nolasco, California
# 511:
9:04 am PDT, Apr 3,
Gail Costic, Pennsylvania
# 510:
6:36 am PDT, Apr 3,
Naresh Kadyan, India
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# 509:
12:52 am PDT, Apr 3,
Sanda Jovanovic, Serbia And Montenegro
# 508:
12:44 am PDT, Apr 3,
Chris MacKrell, California
# 507:
10:18 pm PDT, Apr 2,
Joanne D. Ferguson, Ohio
# 506:
8:26 pm PDT, Apr 2,
Aero Ferguson, Oklahoma
# 505:
6:45 pm PDT, Apr 1,
Barbara Murray, Canada
# 504:
5:12 pm PDT, Mar 25,
Familie Rens,Hanke, Germany
Oh mein Gott!!This is so sick,stupid primitiv!!!!!!!!!You are bloddy-monster-murders!!!!!!!!!!!!!I hope the bears one Day are you kill!!!!!!You have not Heart!!!Not a Brain!!!!!!!!!!!!!Idioten!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh mein Gott!!This is so sick,stupid primitiv!!!!!!!!!You are bloddy-monster-murders!!!!!!!!!!!!!I hope the bears one Day are you kill!!!!!!You have not Heart!!!Not a Brain!!!!!!!!!!!!!Idioten!!!!!!!!!!!
# 503:
3:23 pm PDT, Mar 19,
Margaret Sweeny, United Kingdom
# 502:
5:25 pm PDT, Mar 18,
Simouang Thounsavath, Georgia
# 501:
4:43 pm PDT, Mar 18,
Christopher Carpenter, South Carolina
