Hunters: To protect our social licence, we have to stop killing animals we don’t eat

[Ohwildwon]

Is this the, 'thin red line'?

As educated human beings, isn't leaving mother nature, to her boom and bust cycles unethical in itself?

Let these animal populations rise beyond carrying capacity, only to die of starvation and disease?

Isn't controlling the population, an intelligent ethical response to the way's of mother nature?

If not, why not?

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opin...ticle37701186/

[Red_Mist]

Just read who the opinion piece is by and that says enough.

[Bugle M In]

Well, I guess it is a point of view.
And that's the direction where we are headed, so heads up everyone.
Once Preds are off the "hunting list", it's on to goats and sheep I suppose.
It won't end until "hunting is deemed illegal" by some.
The internet, "Pandora's box".

[brownmancheng]

where is BCWF in all this? they should be much more vocal and in the public eye. They need to fight this rhetoric head on via social media and other mainstream venues, instead they update their website bi annually and drive around the province doing slideshows.

there are many false statements in this article that the globe and mail should be fact checking. at least we should have someone that can counter this and set the record straight.

I definitely am starting to see issues with the stakeholder roundtable all user pay system here. the writer hints to it that if non hunters want input they may have to financially contribute and buy guiding territories (something they have already done)

getting pretty worried the organization that is supposed to represent us is selling us down the river.

[warnniklz]

cougar is god damn tasty. end of story

[butthead]

cougar is god damn tasty. end of story

Beaver is good along with cougar

[warnniklz]

The reason I like forums for hunting better than places like Facebook, is you can tell the whole story with picture aids. Facebook is just pictures and rapid fire comments. I like instagram for hunting and fishing pictures too. It's hard for anti's to pick people and go after them. When you search hunting pictures or I guess hash tags, there's so much content, it's like a zebra effect.

[New Bow Hunter]

Where I hunt, I have never seen any eco-tourists. So that statement only holds water in certain areas.

[Salty]

Well paid Raincoast Foundation staff have a right for an opinion too, absolutely, but sorry it won't hold much water to me.

[butthead]

you know the sad this is that they are gona win this.
they are organized for years and well trained.
us (the hunter) well all we can do is wait for opening day.
getting caribou area closed to snowmobiling for a couple of caribou
there slowly closing off every thing in the wild to us.
think about the roads you found totally impassible this year while out hunting?
one byte at a time they have slowly consumed us.