The British Columbia government has announced it will end grizzly bear trophy hunting throughout the province, effective Nov. 30, 2017.
UBC experts are available to comment:
Cole Burton
Department of Forest Resources Management
Tel: 604-822-1283
Cell: 778-676-4428
Email: cole.burton@ubc.ca
- human-wildlife conflict, carnivore conservation, grizzly bear, wildlife corridors
Sarah Dubois
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Tel: 250-478-9453
Email: sara.dubois@ubc.ca
- trophy hunting, wildlife management, compassionate conservation
Adam Ford
Department of Biology, UBC Okanagan
Tel: 250-826-3101
Email: adam.ford@ubc.ca
- conservation, bears, wildlife management
*unavailable between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesday
Charles Menzies
Department of Anthropology
Tel: 604-318-2504
Email: charles.menzies@ubc.ca
- traditional ecological knowledge, local ecological knowledge, coastal communities, ethnoecology