Canada’s legal trophy hunting should be ended to protect the beleaguered
bears.

By Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor, Published on Dec 20, 2019

It was the year before my son Lysander was born, in 2004, that we saw our
first polar bears, magnificent nomads of imponderable grace roaming the
tundra like predatory ghosts in Manitoba, Canada. Polar bears embody
vastness and unspeakable endurance in their very gait. Theirs is an almost
phantomic presence. They began to haunt us as an unmatched monarch whose
freedom and poise and ability to survive for months without food should
humble our species.

It was only recently, returning from Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic, that
we learned from Ole Jorgen Liodden, photographer and population expert, that
the polar bears were not just being seriously threatened by melting ice but
also by the continued onslaught of trophy hunters who have impaired the
population for decades. In Nunavut…