Editor:
A while ago, I saw a shocking episode on TV about trophy hunting for grizzly bears in northern B.C. These beautiful creatures, in their ever-diminishing habitat, are being killed for sport so someone else’s ego can benefit from the grizzly head, paw or pelt hanging on their wall. The people and businesses profiting from this barbaric practice should be stopped.
According to people who have researched this issue, as much money and more can be made through eco-tourism. The true issue for me is that we can condone grizzly hunting as a sport. If culling is necessary because we have limited their range, then wardens should selectively and humanely cull the bears in order to take away the sport, the business of it.
When killing other life forms becomes a pleasurable pastime for which we pay and others profit, I fear for our humanity.
Sad and mad.
Geoff Clement and Greta Guzek, Gibsons
