In Defense of Animals Urges California Fish & Game To Halt Expansion Of Black Bear Hunting
- Friday, February 5, 2010, 14:06
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IDA also opposes use of high-tech killing aids like GPS
Sacramento, Calif. (Feb. 4, 2010) – In Defense of Animals (IDA), an international animal protection organization with over 85,000 members, including 10,000 in California, has asked the California Fish and Game Commission to reconsider and reject plans to expand the range of legal hunting territory and the number of bears who can be hunted in California.
IDA, along with other animal protection organizations, testified in opposition to the Commission’s proposal to almost double the quota and expand the range of legal hunting territory, calling it unnecessary and inhumane sport hunting. The Fish and Game Commission proposal also allows for the use of new technology, such as dog-borne GPS and “tip switches,” for the hunting of black bears. IDA asked the Commission to prohibit such high-tech killing aids in the hunting of California black bears, and also asked the Commission to ban dog-pack hunting of bears.
“Like millions of compassionate Californians, we are against the Commission catering to the minority of people who enjoy hunting and killing bears for sport, trophies and fun,” said IDA founder and President Dr. Elliot Katz, a veterinarian. “We truly can’t imagine the terror these black bears must feel as they are chased up a tree and cornered by a pack of dogs and then, while trapped, they are blasted out of the tree by high-powered rifles.”
IDA also stated that managing our wildlife populations should be accomplished in ways that prioritize the humane treatment of the animals.
“We would like to see the Fish and Game Commission emphasize humane ways of dealing with bear overpopulation and resolving human-bear conflict,” said IDA Executive Director Anand Ramanathan. “It should not be accomplished by brutal high-tech killing masked as ‘sport hunting.’”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts:
Dr. Elliot Katz, President, 415-448-0048 ext. 225
Anand Ramanathan, Executive Director, 508-364-6802
IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS • 3010 KERNER BLVD. • SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901 • 415-448-0048
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We want all bear hunting stopped – dont these poor bears have enough trouble – all the grizzlies have already been wiped out – we are tired of our wild life not being protceted and all these stupid idiots who kill-kill-kill-kill why dont you all do your jobs and protect our animals ??
Please reconsider this proposed expansion. The black bear is struggling to survive in a shrinking habitat. It is the moral action to protect its habitat rather than invite its destruction.
Holy BeJesus ! they want to expand the hunting of Black Bears ? is this another “wild black bear round em up shoot em program like the BLM APHIS USDA does with the Wild Mustang Round em up progam ?
where the BLM “rounds up Wild Mustangs and then “shoots with a high powered rifle any Horse who is too old; sick or won’t eat ? GET A LIFE BLM and stop starving and then “shooting America’s Wild Mustangs OR
you could find yourselves in Federal Court facing animal cruelty charges !
AND i AM WILLING TO TESTIFY IN ANY FEDERAL COURT WITH PIX. !
I urge the Fish & Game Commission to deny the petition from the CA Dept. of Fish & Game which would permit additional Black Bear Hunting. The amount of natural resources for any species will control their population — if, and only if, Foothill and Mountain communities are directed to revisit their sloppy attracting trash/garbage ordinances and other food source abuses by residents. This should reduce the number of human/bear conflicts. Also consider the massive 250-sq.-mile So Cal Station Fire which did its share to reduce the number of bears in the San Gabriel Mountain Range. Of course, if this is just a maneuver to balance budget within a Fish & Game Department, well, someone is going to have to answer to God.