by Barry Kent MacKay in Canada, Coexisting with Wildlife on June 02, 2021
Born Free USA stands against trophy hunting anywhere and everywhere it takes place. That is why we oppose the Yukon Territory’s spring grizzly bear hunt. Spring bear hunting — which Born Free USA has spoken out against in Ontario, where a spring hunt on black bears was recently reinstated — risks leaving orphaned cubs, dependent on their mothers, to die of stress, hunger, or predation. And, while hunters may be restricted only to shooting males, an absence of cubs does not always mean that a lone bear in spring is a male, and eager hunters too often make mistakes.