
Lisa Madsen started this petition to Deputy Minister Environment and Parks Eric Denhoff and 9 others
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http://www.change.org/p/minister-of-justice
Currently our Alberta government allows the killing of bear cubs left behind by trophy hunters who “accidentally” kill mother bears for a head to mount on their wall. Bear cubs are shot by Fish and Wildlife or left to starve to death, or be victims of predators. This includes both black bear and grizzly bear cubs , as well as many other species found in Alberta.
A petition was delivered to the Legislature in March by MLA, Dr. David Swann. Albertans and people throughout the world made it clear that allowing injured wildlife to succumb to “Nature taking its course” is unacceptable.
The Alberta Environment & Parks Department, as stewards of Alberta’s wildlife, have failed in their responsibility towards…
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Of course they should allow rehabilitation of orphaned cubs! I can’t believe thinking can be so backward on this. It takes generations of breeding to ‘take the wild’ out of a wild animal – and they will do just fine without human input, just the minimum required to ready them for a life in the wild again. Better a chance at the wild than a no-life in a zoo prison, especially if the alternative was to kill them.