The Pros And Cons Of Grizzly Bears

Hunting has become a staple of American traditions since the beginning of the first hunter/gatherers, to the Native Americans who have lived in the U.S for millennia, even all the way until present day. Much of today’s society looks at hunting as a cruel activity when in reality it has more of a positive effect on the environment than it does harm. There are an abundance of benefits that come from hunting. Some of the benefits of hunting are: it is the biggest contribution to conserving wildlife, the meat is healthier than commercially produced meat, many jobs are being supported out of hunting, and every hunter wants “to bag” the trophy animal; however, there are a few cons to this, which include poaching and interference by the activist

The bear have evolved along time ago and now there is only eight species existing. They evolved from early canids during the late Oligocene and early Miocene, about 25 million years ago. The earliest ancestors where the Dormaalocyon Latouri. An intermediate ancestor was the short faced bear, very similar to the modern day bear. It lived through the pleistocene period. It grew to thirteen feet long and was a herbivore. The ancestors to the modern day bears lived in the same climate and ate the same things. The modern bear contrast from the ancestor because the ancestor was more skinny and was smaller, and it was more cat like. The eight species of bear that still exist. They are the Polar bear, Brown bear, American black bear, Asian

The Grizzly Bear is a Keystone species. A keystone species is the center block, of which an ecosystem largely relies on. The Grizzly Bear lives in places such as alpine slopes, avalanche shoots and lower elevation wetlands.

Hunting is a common controversial issue among people. Determining when killing an animal is necessary and ethical has mixed viewpoints. One type of hunting that generally creates feelings of animosity among people is trophy hunting. There are very few ethical theories and ideas that support trophy hunting. Trophy hunting is a form of hunting in which the hunter kills an animal with the main goal of taking a part or parts of that animal for a trophy. The majority of trophy hunting occurs in Africa, with big game as the most popular trophies, but trophy hunting also applies to non-exotic species as well. In this paper, I will start with introducing a recent incident involving the killing of a popular African lion, then outlining the main ethical issues with trophy hunting. Next I will analyze the trophy hunting from an anthropocentric, biocentric, and ecocentric viewpoint, and finally I will propose a few solutions that would make trophy hunting a more ethical activity. Trophy hunting has been said to provide many benefits to conservation and preservation of species but is ethically lacking; with some stronger laws and regulations trophy hunting has the potential to be both ethically acceptable and beneficial to the environment.

This is approximately the same range of the Great Bear rainforest, which is a part of the larger North Pacific temperate rainforest (Appendix 1 Map 2). It falls within the biogeoclimatic zone of the coastal western hemlock which consists of cool and wet climate due to its proximity to both ocean and the mountain range (Klinka & Reimchen, 2009). This zone is home to a variety of distinct species such as coastal wolves and pacific salmon (Ferguson, 2006) and makes up approximately a quarter of the world’s temperate coastal forest.This region is so important due to the fact that it is basically one of the lungs for the world, storing massive quantities of carbon (Della Sala, 2013). This contributes to many factors such as regulating global climate and most importantly for the Kermode bear, supporting the world’s most productive salmon runs (Della Sala, 2013). The Spirit bear’s distribution is heavily reliant on this distribution and availability of the pacific salmon (Klinka & Reimchen, 2009). Evidence suggests that even though the Kermode bear is a subspecies of the american black bear and share the same niche, they still have different distribution of feeding areas (Sachs, 2010). The american black bear relies heavily on in-land shrubs including whitebark pine (Pinus

I have trapped over 40 years at Peerless Lake many years ago and now returned and have travelled all my life in the woods. I could tell you many instances of timber wolves and the moose, and on those days there were millions of rabbits as feed for the wolf [my emphasis], and today very few rabbits. Perhaps today you don’t realize the destruction of the moose between the hunters and wolves and bears.

The Grizzly bears population has grown from about 200 in 1975 to approximately 600-1200 in the 18 million acers of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. (Yellowstone)

In his letter titled “Why Recreational Hunting in Western Canada is Morally Justified,” Sven states that he is arguing for “responsible hunting where the primary benefits are the pleasure of hunting animals in the wilderness and eating their meat.” Despite several strengths, his weaknesses in reasoning outweigh the few positives. Thus, the letter’s overall worth is negligible. The letter’s weaknesses in reasoning lie in Sven’s central justifications for recreational hunting, being human pleasure and eating meat, in his supporting argument for animal suffering, and in his failure to define recreational hunting’s necessity.

The hunters aren’t really arguing for their right to hunt bears; they’re fighting for their freedom. They see hunting as their livelihood. Hunting keeps the population in check and keeps bears from attacking children or raiding farms. With too many bears,

“The Facts About Hunting.” Friends of Animals And Their Benefits. Friends of Animals And Their Benefits, Web. 8 November 2013

I am going to relocate the grizzly bear because, this isn’t a problem of hunting, where the bear needs to be hunted because of any supposed killing or injuries it done, and it was only one bear, so there is no need to reduce the number in the bear population. However, this may could have been or was already a chronic, so I will contact the local Cody, Wyoming agencies to see if shooting the bear is the best solution, if no other solutions work. I also don’t think trapping is an option, when there is no population or distribution estimates in the need of being done, plus trapping is hard work and costs a lot of money implant in large areas, and when the bear has already been located, it will be easy to get from the one of the two stores. I do

Animal hunting is not only inhumane but can also lead to the extinction of many species. In the essay “Our Animal Rites”, Quindlen asserts that it is “pathetic to consider the firepower” the hunters use in order to “bring down one fair-sized deer” (33). In this quote, she explains that the use of firepower by human to kill innocent animals is unfair and heartrending. Furthermore, Quindlen describes that even though the bears are killed by the “smiling” and triumphant hunters after the “three bear days in the autumn,” the bears look “more dignified than they do” (33). This suggests that hunting animals is not entertaining but rather unacceptable and disgraceful. Furthermore, many species can become extinct due to excessive hunting. In an ecology class, I learned that the extinction rate of species each year is approximately two hundred to two thousand each year. This is an extremely high and alerting rate since there is only around two million species that has been scientifically identified on the planet. In these examples, it can be concluded that the hunting of innocent animals is atrocious and

In North America, the grizzly bear is a keystone species - not as a predator but as ecosystem engineers. They transfer nutrients from the oceanic ecosystem to the forest ecosystem. The first stage of the transfer

During hunting welfare of Grizzly is severely compromised as all three spheres of welfare, which are biological functioning, affective state, and natural living, proposed by Fraser et al. (1997) are negatively impacted. It has widely been studied that capture and tracking methods can impose stress on the wildlife. In the case of trophy hunting, if the tracking period is prolonged the stress can deteriorate the mental and physiological functioning (Cattet et al., 2003). Hunting can be done by foot, boats, air crafts and ATVs and the use vehicles brings its own consequences as well. Tracking via vehicles high levels of unnatural noises at variable frequencies which are typically not found in their natural environments. Gamble (1982) has suggested that “high

Trying to get an accurate trend in polar bears is difficult due to the geographical areas polar bears live and due to the fact that there are 5 countries that have polar bears living in their boarders and not every country is dong scientific research on polar bear populations. The Russians, Norwegians and Danes have never completed a full population inventory so it is impossible to know what is the current population and what the status of those populations are. The 2008 COSEWIC Status Report says that polar bear populations have “increased over the past few decades” but is now declining. Out of the subpopulations in Canada, 4 are declining, 7 are stable or increasing and for 2 a trend cannot be projected due a lack of information. The PBSG