38 environmental and animal welfare organizations, along with wildlife-based businesses and prominent activists, have signed an Open Letter to the B.C. government opposing the continuation of grizzly bear hunting, under the pretext of hunting for meat, except for a jointly-regulated First Nations ceremonial/sustenance hunt. “The B.C. government is planning to end trophy hunting of grizzly bears, but will allow them to be hunted for meat across most of the province, except for a 230,000-hectare portion of the Great Bear Rainforest,” says Ian McAllister of Pacific Wild. “We are asking for a complete ban on hunting grizzly bears all over B.C.” Head to our website pacificwild.org to read the full open letter. As it stands, we expect to see trophy hunting continued under the guise of “meat” hunting. The importance of public outcry is critical to seeing policy change - the current government process only considers how to manage the meat hunt, not whether there should even be a meat hunt. Help #saveBCbears and continue the fight to end grizzly bear hunting in B.C. once and for all: savebcbears.org