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Predator Bounties in Western Canada Cause Animal Suffering and Compromise Wildlife Conservation Efforts
Although predation bounty programs (rewards offered for capturing or killing an animal) ended more than 40 years ago in Canada, they were reintroduced in Alberta in 2007 by hunting, trapping, and farming organizations, municipalities and counties, and in 2009 in Saskatchewan, by municipal and provin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4693201/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26479482 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani5040397 |
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author | Proulx, Gilbert Rodtka, Dwight |
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description | Although predation bounty programs (rewards offered for capturing or killing an animal) ended more than 40 years ago in Canada, they were reintroduced in Alberta in 2007 by hunting, trapping, and farming organizations, municipalities and counties, and in 2009 in Saskatchewan, by municipal and provincial governments and the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association. Bounty hunters use inhumane and non-selective killing methods such as shooting animals in non-vital regions, and killing neck snares and strychnine poisoning, which cause suffering and delayed deaths. They are unselective, and kill many non-target species, some of them at risk. Predator bounty programs have been found to be ineffective by wildlife professionals, and they use killing methods that cause needless suffering and jeopardize wildlife conservation programs. Our analysis therefore indicates that government agencies should not permit the implementation of bounty programs. Accordingly, they must develop conservation programs that will minimize wildlife-human conflicts, prevent the unnecessary and inhumane killing of animals, and ensure the persistence of all wildlife species. |
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spelling | pubmed-46932012016-01-07 Predator Bounties in Western Canada Cause Animal Suffering and Compromise Wildlife Conservation Efforts Proulx, Gilbert Rodtka, Dwight Animals (Basel) Case Report Although predation bounty programs (rewards offered for capturing or killing an animal) ended more than 40 years ago in Canada, they were reintroduced in Alberta in 2007 by hunting, trapping, and farming organizations, municipalities and counties, and in 2009 in Saskatchewan, by municipal and provincial governments and the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association. Bounty hunters use inhumane and non-selective killing methods such as shooting animals in non-vital regions, and killing neck snares and strychnine poisoning, which cause suffering and delayed deaths. They are unselective, and kill many non-target species, some of them at risk. Predator bounty programs have been found to be ineffective by wildlife professionals, and they use killing methods that cause needless suffering and jeopardize wildlife conservation programs. Our analysis therefore indicates that government agencies should not permit the implementation of bounty programs. Accordingly, they must develop conservation programs that will minimize wildlife-human conflicts, prevent the unnecessary and inhumane killing of animals, and ensure the persistence of all wildlife species. MDPI 2015-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4693201/ /pubmed/26479482 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani5040397 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Proulx, Gilbert Rodtka, Dwight Predator Bounties in Western Canada Cause Animal Suffering and Compromise Wildlife Conservation Efforts |
title | Predator Bounties in Western Canada Cause Animal Suffering and Compromise Wildlife Conservation Efforts |
title_full | Predator Bounties in Western Canada Cause Animal Suffering and Compromise Wildlife Conservation Efforts |
title_fullStr | Predator Bounties in Western Canada Cause Animal Suffering and Compromise Wildlife Conservation Efforts |
title_full_unstemmed | Predator Bounties in Western Canada Cause Animal Suffering and Compromise Wildlife Conservation Efforts |
title_short | Predator Bounties in Western Canada Cause Animal Suffering and Compromise Wildlife Conservation Efforts |
title_sort | predator bounties in western canada cause animal suffering and compromise wildlife conservation efforts |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4693201/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26479482 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani5040397 |
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