Issue Brief: Alberta reinstates grizzly hunt

In June, the Government of Alberta altered the province’s Wildlife Regulation without public consultation to allow limited hunting of grizzly bears in Alberta. Grizzly bears are listed as a threatened species in Alberta, and an Alberta Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan was first completed and accepted in 2008 with the latest review and revisions in 2020.

• News Certain 'problem' grizzly bears can now be hunted in Alberta (CBC News | July 9, 2024)
• News Canada: grizzly bear hunting quietly reinstated in Alberta (The Guardian | July 9, 2024)
• Media Release Controversial Hunt Returns for Alberta’s Threatened Grizzly Bears after Ministerial Order (Alberta Wilderness Association | July 9, 2024)
• Media Release Changes to Alberta’s Wildlife Act lack evidence of effectively reducing human-bear conflict (CPAWS Northern & Southern Alberta |  July 11, 2024)
• Commentary Alberta launches grizzly bear hunt, government says; it’s ‘not a bear hunt,’ government also says (AlbertaPolitics.ca | July 10, 2024)
• Opinion Open meddling by politicians and commercial interests is putting Alberta’s fish and wildlife management at risk — Lorne Fitch (AlbertaPolitics.ca | July 31, 2024)
• Opinion Alberta’s move to reopen the grizzly hunt should only have been made after public consultation — Kevin Van Tighem (The Globe and Mail | Aug 2, 2024)

Our friends at the Alberta Wilderness Association, have provided a template to write a letter to the Minister asking him to reverse the changes to the Wildlife Act

• Action Alert Write a Letter to Stop the Grizzly Bear Hunt (July 10, 2024)