Alberta's threatened grizzly bears need protection now
March 4, 2010
Alberta's grizzly bear is a threatened species that needs special protection. In 2002, Alberta's Endangered Species Conservation Committee (ESCC), representing scientists, universities, First Nations, industries, hunters, conservationists and ranchers, recommended that the grizzly bear be listed as a Threatened species under Alberta's Wildlife Act. Unfortunately, the government so far has failed to implement this recommendation and Alberta's grizzlies continue to suffer from a wide array of threats.
At roughly 600 bears, Alberta's grizzly population remains far below provincially and internationally recognized thresholds.
The province has embarked on a further status review and, eight years later, it will ask the ESCC once again to re-examine whether the grizzly bear should be listed as a protected species.
Once the status review is complete it will be up to Mel Knight, the newly appointed Minister of Sustainable Resource Development, to decide if the grizzly bear will be listed as Threatened and given legal protection.
Please take a moment to contact Sustainable Resource Development Minister Mel Knight and let him know your thoughts on grizzly bear recovery, including legal listing and habitat protection.
Learn more at CPAWS Southern Alberta
Read our news release about the new status report on Grizzlies in Alberta
Comments | Commentaires
Note: Any opinions expressed here, except as specifically noted, are those of the individual commenters and do not necessarily represent the views or policies of CPAWS.Please protect the grizzly bears.Due to people taking over their habitat,they have nowhere to go. Please leave some land for them.Thank You.
Posted by janine boguslawski on March 5, 2010 5:00 PMPlease save the grizzly bears.Due to habitat encroachment they are losing more places to call home. Thank you
Posted by janine boguslawski on March 5, 2010 5:05 PMPlease protect these beautiful animals and their land.
Posted by Carol Leuenberger on March 6, 2010 8:56 PMplease protect the bears.
Posted by gerlinde palsingh on March 12, 2010 8:46 PMIs it just for sport that hunters shoot and kill the bears? Is it that they like to display the bears head on the wall for admiration, or maybe place the bears skin on thier floor? Did you notice that I said the bears head and the bears skin because that's what they are is the bears, not peoples! We have our own!!!! Leave the bears be, in peace!
Posted by Chris Vaughn on March 12, 2010 10:13 PMWe need to protect all the creatures we still have on this earth. Please, help!
Posted by Robyn Lamoreux on March 12, 2010 10:44 PMPlease protect our Grizzly Bears and their Habitat!!
Posted by Deana Palmer on March 12, 2010 10:58 PMIt is time to protect the Grizzly Bear now!
Posted by chris beal on March 13, 2010 6:07 AMBecause we (man) keeps taking all the land, wildlife has no where to go and just seems to be overpopulated.
Posted by Ronda Richardson on March 13, 2010 11:00 AMPlease protect these beautiful Bears as well as their home
Posted by Kari Dyrdahl on March 13, 2010 2:07 PMStop killing God's animals. Stop killing our animals. Just stop killing!
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Protect our bears!!!!
Posted by Cher Clarke on March 5, 2010 2:42 PM