Working to assure the longterm viability of top carnivore wildlife in the west.
Bears
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Most U.S. states and Canadian provinces and territories classify the black bear as a game animal; four U.S. states confer no legal status,
and thus no legal protections for black bears. Black bears can be legally hunted in 27 U.S. states.
Many of these states allow hunting practices deemed cruel and “unsporting,” including spring hunts, baiting, hounding,
and the selling and trade of bear parts. It is estimated that between 40,000 to 50,000 bears are legally hunted in the U.S. each year;
an unknown number are also illegally poached.
Though grizzly bears are imperiled across their range in Canada, the government there has yet to enact an endangered species statute
that would afford grizzly bears adequate protections. In 2001, British Columbia overturned a ban on trophy hunting of grizzly bears.
