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Citizens’ Wolf Culls Continue in 2021/22
Yet another citizens' cull of wolves in British Columbia is underway in 2021. Knowing that the optics of their violent hobby will do damage to public opinion of hunting, groups and individuals are careful to post to private social media platforms. At least one hunting...
Owl killed at Ministry of Environment office building
On November 16, 2021 Deanna Pfeifer of Rodenticide Free BC received a call about a dead great-horned owl at the Jutland Road office of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy in Victoria. Black poison boxes had been located against the outer walls of...
Citizens’ Wolf Culls Continue in 2021/22
Yet another citizens' cull of wolves in British Columbia is underway in 2021. Knowing that the optics of their violent hobby will do damage to public opinion of hunting, groups and individuals are careful to post to private social media platforms. At least one hunting...
Owl killed at Ministry of Environment office building
On November 16, 2021 Deanna Pfeifer of Rodenticide Free BC received a call about a dead great-horned owl at the Jutland Road office of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy in Victoria. Black poison boxes had been located against the outer walls of...
Family of Cougars Killed on BC Family Day
On February 15, 2021 (BC Family Day) a resident group of trophy hunters went out into the newly fallen snow on Vancouver Island to easily track cougars. They killed four that day, likely an entire family. The woman among the hunters took to her public Instagram...
A System of Bad Relations with BC Wolves
March 24, 2021 will mark a year since the famous west coast wolf known as Takaya was killed by a hunter on Vancouver Island. Two months before his killing winter storms had taken him by strong currents to an urban Victoria community, where he was trapped and relocated...
Shawnigan Lake Woman Prevents a Bear Death
His name is Boris. And he’s fine. The BC Conservation Officer Service tells mainstream media that they receive thousands of bear calls every year, yet the $230.00 fines for unsecured trash that they are authorized to give out are rarely imposed. This has resulted in...
A Crucified Bear and 4,800 Tags
Warning: graphic content To help hunters combat boredom during Covid 19 isolation the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development declared hunting an essential service and issued more than 4,800 black bear tags for the spring...
The Long and Over-reaching Arm of the BCCOS
Bear Family fleeing Conservation Officers July 30, 2019 On the afternoon of July 30, 2019 a Conservation Officer Service truck arrived in the Coquitlam neighbourhood of Sumpter Drive and Baker Drive. Susan Flint was on her phone when she heard a commotion, someone...
It’s Only Funny if Everyone Laughs
Tristin Hopper of the newly formed online magazine “The Capital” has recently returned to Victoria to base his free-lance career here. His welcome was worn out for many Victoria residents on August 23, 2019 with this tweet: Claiming that he saw a raccoon attacking an...
Hunter Attempts to Intimidate Women Who Oppose His Hobby
Temper tantrums and bad behaviour steer wildlife management in British Columbia. In February 2018 my friend and colleague Jordan Reichert posted my Victoria Animal News story “A One-Man Bounty on Wolves in BC,” to his Victoria Animal News blog. In that article I...
A Slim Chance that Slipped Away: Alberta Grizzly Cub Killed
On May 3, 2018 witnesses observed a grizzly cub under a bridge near Grand Cache, Alberta. They called the Grand Cache Animal Society. Brandy Gienger, one of the founders of the Society, went to the site to check on the condition of the cub. She advised the provincial...
Leghold Traps, Snares and Glee
What does a citizen-led wolf cull in British Columbia look like? Trapping, snaring and shooting-on-sight of British Columbia’s wolves has been escalated this year by a citizen campaign asking for donations to trappers to eradicate wolves across the province, in order...
A One-man Bounty on BC Wolves
Bounty: a payment to encourage the destruction of noxious animals. Webster-Merriam Wolves in British Columbia are in grave danger at this writing. Steve Isdahl has proudly taken it upon himself on social media to have as many wolves killed in the province as he can....
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