By Kitty Block and Sara Amundson

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November 16, 2020 0 Comments

Baiting brown bears– luring them with rotting piles of sugary foods and then killing them– is an extreme practice that biologists have raised alarms about.Photo by Erik Mandre/iStock.com33.8KSHARES

A federal court has ruled that brown bears in Alaska’s Kenai National Wildlife Refuge should continue to be protected from the cruel and biologically unsound hunting practice of baiting—luring these animals with piles of rotting foods like donuts and pastries and then killing them.

The Humane Society of the United States and our coalition partners, led by Trustees for Alaska, intervened in a lawsuitin 2017to defend an Obama administration rule that, among other protections, banned the baiting of brown bears. We did so because the state of Alaska and trophy hunting groups, including Safari Club International, went to court soon after that rule was finalized in…