Kyle Artelle in new National Post op-ed: on the hunt for Science
In an op-ed for The Conversation Canada, Kyle Artelle wrote about his concerns with wildlife management practices in Canada and the US with regards to hunting. The article was shared online by the National Post.
"Several years ago, our research found that management of the B.C. grizzly bear trophy hunt risked killing more bears than government policy had deemed sustainable because of the considerable unaddressed uncertainty in grizzly bear population estimates, population growth rates and poaching rates. Yet the government responded by increasing that risk, reopening hunting in areas that had been previously closed due to overhunting and increasing hunting quotas elsewhere..." NP