Wildlife officials in NV claim the bear population is healthy and can be hunted. How can one claim the population is healthy when human impacts result in NV bears living one third of their natural life expectancy? Healthy to our wildlife officials means only that there are enough bears for them to sell tags to hunters in order to fund their agency. The agency is spending more on the hunt than it is taking in and bears are being chased down by packs of hounds and shot at point blank range. Behavioral research on large carnivores such as bears shows this causes social disruption to the species that causes even greater harm. There is no biological or ethical reason to hunt NV bears. The fact that this is occurring is because a small user group controls wildlife management decisions against the will of the general public and what is good for The Bears. This must stop. Please support organizations such as NoBearHuntNV whose volunteers are working hard to right this wrong.
Wildlife officials in NV claim the bear population is healthy and can be hunted. How can one claim the population is healthy when human impacts result in NV bears living one third of their natural life expectancy? Healthy to our wildlife officials means only that there are enough bears for them to sell tags to hunters in order to fund their agency. The agency is spending more on the hunt than it is taking in and bears are being chased down by packs of hounds and shot at point blank range. Behavioral research on large carnivores such as bears shows this causes social disruption to the species that causes even greater harm. There is no biological or ethical reason to hunt NV bears. The fact that this is occurring is because a small user group controls wildlife management decisions against the will of the general public and what is good for The Bears. This must stop. Please support organizations such as NoBearHuntNV whose volunteers are working hard to right this wrong.