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A grizzly challenge

25 May 2010

Proposed human-caused mortality in the Government of Alberta’s 2010 Status of the Grizzly Bear in limits are too high, and the universally accepted sustainable road density Alberta report, indicates that the grizzly bear population in Alberta is thresholds do not apply to enough of Alberta’s grizzly bear recovery area in dire straits. [...] The greater the number of bears and the per cent over an area large enough to maintain a grizzly greater the extent of their geographic range, the lower the risk of bear population big enough for long-term persistence. [...] This will allow scientists and managers to track the size and health of the The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) population over the long term and modify management and guidelines, which Alberta uses to assess the status of endemic education strategies as needed. [...] This keystone Minister of Sustainable Development, Mel Knight, recently said that role is reflected in the high value that the large majority of “the government of Alberta has every intention of being sure grizzly citizens place on the conservation of species at risk.” The goal bears remain part of the landscape in Alberta.” 69 of the strategy is to “ensure that populations of all wild species [in [...] Section In 1996, Alberta signed the Accord for the Protection of Species 3.1.1 of the Fish and Wildlife Policy states that “… the primary at Risk in Canada (APSRC), which committed the provincial consideration of the Government is to ensure that wildlife government to cooperate with the federal government on the populations are protected from severe decline and that viable conservation of species
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Authors

Gailus, Jeff

Pages
40
Published in
Canada

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