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 Home > News and alerts > You are here: Environmental group working to ban hunting Environmental group working to ban hunting (12/13/2002) A
chapter of the Sierra Club of Canada is planning to initiate a movement
to ban hunting and trapping in Canada’s wildlife reserves. According to the Montreal
Gazette, the Quebec Group of the Eastern Canada Chapter of the
Sierra Club of Canada launched a campaign to denounce Quebec’s
wildlife conservation policies and begin a movement to ban hunting and
trapping on reserves. “Well-organized groups of hunters and trappers,
with government collaboration, have succeeded in subverting the original
purpose of reserves,” said Ray Raymond, chairman of the Quebec Group.
“Hunting and trapping are activities that have no basis in
conservation and are incompatible with species-conservation
objectives.” Raymond goes on to imply that permitting hunting
and trapping will devastate biodiversity on reserves. Nothing could be further from the truth. Trapping, hunting and fishing are regulated to
prevent declines in wildlife populations and deterioration of habitats.
According to the Draft Québec
Strategy on Biological Diversity 2002-2007, sportsmen will be
helpful in monitoring biodiversity. Records showing the number of
white-tailed deer and moose taken by hunters will help gauge the
condition of these wildlife populations. CopyrightÓ U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance- www.ussportsmen.org
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