A Visual Petition
Imagine making a difference, this was the inspiration that lead conservation photographer Andy Wright to conceive and promote the “Faltering Light” visual petition. It is a glossy high quality coffee table book of four chapters: an open letter to the BC government requesting that trophy hunting of bears is stopped, essays from leading environmentalists and 21st century conservation thought leaders, spectacular sepia grizzly, black and spirit bear photographs and YOUR SIGNATURES supporting the termination of the trophy hunt.
Copies of the book will be delivered to Premier Gordon Campbell and Environment Minister Barry Penner before the trophy hunt resumes in April 2010. Ten copies of the book will also be presented to British Columbian libraries and the Vancouver archive at city hall as a permanent record of every signing individuals historic contribution.
So help us make history, record your name for posterity and join...
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One person.
In a world of seemingly overwhelming and unstoppable issues, it takes just one person to stand up and make their voice heard to change the course of history and create a better world for all life.
And it will take the signature of just one person – a young First Nation student from Klemtu, a farmer from the Peace River, a hunter from the Kootenays, a lawyer from downtown Vancouver, a member of the British Columbian government – to stop the trophy hunting of the Great Bear’s Great Bears.
Of course, Canada's West Coast, also known as the Great Bear Rainforest, is one of the most pristine, spectacular and ecologically important areas of the world — home to a remarkable diversity of life.
In this rainforest, there are, in fact, two Great Bears. The vast tract of coastline is home to grizzly bears, as well as the genetically unique subspecies of black bear known as the Kermode or "spirit bear." One out of every 10 black Kermode bears gives...
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Videos and Documentaries
Pacific Wild has created some outstanding documentaries about the trophy hunt please consider watching the links below. Also visit pacificwild for more excellent videos.
Death of a Great Bear Documentary Part 1
Death of a Great Bear Documentary Part 2
Call for Action
Jane Goodall speaks out about the Trophy Hunt
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Trophy Hunting
by Ian McAllister, founding director of Pacific Wild
There are few experiences as inspiring or as evocative of North American wilderness as the site of an adult grizzly foraging for clams along the inter tidal flats, or perhaps fishing the rapids of a pristine river teaming with spawning salmon. Yet as more and more international tourists discover the wonderful experience of viewing these beautiful mammals in their natural environment, British Columbia marks another dubious milestone in its checkered history of grizzly bear management.
In 2007, 430 grizzlies were killed in B.C., 363 of them by affluent, mostly American and European sport hunters, making last year the highest rate of hunter-caused mortality of this iconic bear since records have been kept. This sad statistic puts the lie to the provincial government’s own description of grizzlies as “perhaps the greatest symbol of the wilderness” whose “survival will be the greatest testimony...
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Please check back as this section will be updated as meaningful questions are asked about the Visual Petition "Faltering Light" Thank You from the Faltering Light Team
Privacy and Personal Information.
When signing this petition you agree to allow you name to be included and published in the book “Faltering Light”. Your email address will remain private and unpublished. Your email address will only be used by the Faltering Light project to contact you with occasional project updates and hopefully good news about the termination of the trophy hunt. Your email address and name will not be provided to any third party including the sponsoring organizations. For longer term engagements on this issue we encourage you to subscribe to our sponsoring organizations news letter services at the following web addresses :-
www.spiritbearyouth.orgwww.pacificwild.orgwww.bluewateradventures.ca
www.discover-bluewater.blogspot.com/
www.bearsmatter.com...
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