What do you think about the hunting of bears in the USA and Canada, and why?
by admin on Monday, March 8th, 2010 | 14 Comments
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I am very much against it because I am an animal lover. I hit a squirrel once with my car and I cried the whole way home. LoL.
I think that hunting is sometimes wrong, because it is an ineffcient food source. In addition, they run the risk of extinction.
totally against it unless we are overloaded in an area densely populated
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I don’t mind. It is proper for the manigment of the species. There have to be things to thin the heard. As long as the species isn’t being threatened. If the population of bears is too high, it can become dangrous for humans.
I think no animal should be hunted, it’s just wrong. They’re out there minding their own business living their life and BOOM, all of a sudden baby bears are lost in the woods without their mom
I mean I know there are people out there who hunt deer and things to eat, which is ok. It’s the same as anyone else eating meat, they just do the preparing themselves. Hunting for fun? NO WAY.
I’m against it. Bears are getting small in #’s as it is. Hunting them is destroying them. We have no need to hunt them. Hunting should only be done for survival for ones who use every aspect of what they hunt. Not as a trophy or a rug on the floor!!!!!!!!
the only good reason is for population control too many bears
however on the other side we are taking over their areas and causing them more harm then they do us
i am against it
The main threat to large carnivores like bears and big cats is habitat loss. This means there is less food to go around, and that means more chance that they will encroach upon areas of human habitation in search of food. So hunting will prevent the small chance that a person will be harmed by these bears wich are searching for food, but there are what 300 million people in the US and I don’t know how many in Canada, so wouldn’t it make more sense to hunt the people?
Large carnivores are on the way out, we are in the middle of the largest extinction event in 65 million years and human populations are the cause (). However north america is about the only land mass where large carnivores can actually be saved, because there is enough wealth and enough caring people to fight for them. However hunting them will not aid the cause… it would be better if governments stopped selling off land, clearing forests and instead encouraged people to live in smaller areas such as high density housing in cities.
But oh wait, that’ll get in the way of someone’s pursuit of happiness, won’t it? Might as well just keep killing the bears then…
I grew up hunting anything I liked, and no tyrants are going to tell me I cannot do it.
there is no reason why any one should hunt bears at all, they are already losing their forest homes and trees they should not be hunted ,also.they get hunted for their meat and fat. i am totally against it!
typical human thing that, stupid and mostly unnecessary. The main driving force is economic, as is so often the case – lots of money in a few kinds of bear organs, depending on where you sell them. Funny how short-sighted greed runs the world, and what benefits only a few at everybody else’s expense is acceptable.
I think most of the people here do not understand how legal hunting works. If done within the means of the law people cannot just go out and kill whatever bear they want, as many as they want and whenever they want. Just as any other animal out there, deer, coyote, turkey, etc… there are very exact laws that are followed to keep things under control.
Thus there is no way, under set laws that an animal in the US would be hunted into extinction (unless done on purpose). If a species is threatened or endangered in an area the USFWS and other services will not allow that animal to be hunted in that area. If that same animal is in high numbers in another location hunting might be allowed, even then there is a season and bag limit. There is this tiny thing called wildlife management and population management to keep things in check so animals, whatever species, does not get into trouble with numbers/breeding.
In this day and age have you seen any animals in the US hunted into extinction? No and that is because laws have changed and there are rules and regulations. Even then the largest threat to bear popluations is loss of habitat, something that has NOTHING to do with hunting.
As to the people who mentioned about selling organs… that is more of an Asia thing were bears are raised and killed just for organs and bile, most of which goes onto the black market.
In the US bears are hunted for two reasons… one being sport and the other being for food. And yes, people do eat bear meat.
As to what I think about hunting (in general not just bears)… I am NOT against it in the least if it is done within the means of the law and if what is killed is used. If people want to mount a head on their wall and keep a hide… fine with me as long as you use the meat and do not leave the rest to rot.
I am totally against hunting for fun – period, whatever the species – whether it’s a bird, a fox or a bear! Culling (when it is scientifically researched), hunting for food, and hunting by indigenous peoples are different issues.
In answer with one or two of the answers posted here – today, a major threat to the American black bear is poaching, to supply Asian markets with bear galls and paws, considered to have medicinal value in China, Japan, and Korea. The demand for these parts also affects grizzly and polar bears. So it’s not just Aisiatic balck bears that are taken.
The grizzly bear is listed as threatened in the contiguous United States, and endangered in parts of Canada. In Alaska and parts of Canada however, the grizzly is still legally shot for sport by hunters, which defies belief. And recently, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “de-listed” the population of Grizzlies in the Yellowstone National Park, effectively removing their protection. So what’s the point of National Parks if creatures aren’t protected? It seems the hunting and shooting fraternity have a seriously large amount of political clout!