Wildlife Groups want body cams on B.C. Conservation Officers after 4,300 bears have been killed in 8 years.
Link to 100 Mile Free Press: https://www.100milefreepress.net/new...ed-in-8-years/
The wildlife group is Pacific Wild, which I believe are the group responsible for the grizzly bear hunt ban (If I recall correctly), and protested wolf culls and the hunting of cougar, lynx, and bobcat.
Here's the link to their article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...NBiPHEQCOBg62o
And I ran some quick numbers: There are roughly 120,000 to 160,000 black bears in BC. On the low end, 542 bears killed is roughly 0.004% of the total black bear population of BC.