The same wildlife protection group that successfully campaigned against the grizzly bear trophy hunt in B.C. is now urging the government to end what they call the trophy hunting of cougars, lynxes and bobcats.

The Wildlife Defence League has launched an online campaign and petition that it will use to pressure the province to ban the popular big cat hunt.

“It feels like this is the evolution of the grizzly hunt ban,” said executive director Tommy Knowles. “We don’t really see the difference between the grizzly bear trophy hunt and the wild cat trophy hunt.”

In 2017, B.C. banned the hunting of grizzly bears, and…