by Contributor on Wednesday May 24 2017
By Judith Lavoie. This article is from DeSmog Canada.
A plan to form a new, independent wildlife management agency in B.C., which would relieve the provincial government from managing contentious wildlife issues such as grizzly, wolf and caribou populations, is generating anxiety among some conservation groups who fear the structure of the new program could prioritize the interests of hunters over wildlife.
The proposal for the new agency, first announced in March, was scant on details, but Steve Thomson, then minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, set a fall start-up date and set aside $200,000 for consultations with conservation and hunting groups.
“Government is afraid to manage wolves, for example, or afraid to manage grizzly bears in some cases because…
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