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          <title>Tahltan president explains why his nation is paying members to hunt bears and wolves in northwest B.C.</title>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description>Provincial ban on grizzly bear trophy hunt has led to a boom in the predator population and crashing ungulate populations, threatening food security, Tahltan Central Government President Chad Day tells The Narwhal 
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          <dc:creator>Matt Simmons</dc:creator>

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          <title>How to stop trophy hunting? Buy up all the licences</title>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2019 18:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description>A B.C. conservation group is on a mission to purchase all the commercial hunting licences in the Great Bear Rainforest, where animals like black bears, wolves and cougars can still legally be killed as trophies. The focus right now is the Kitlope, a breathtaking area home to the world’s largest intact area of coastal temperate rainforest </description>
          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

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          <title>Two grizzly cubs run over and killed in B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest</title>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description>Deaths highlight ongoing tensions between humans and bears in the Bella Coola Valley
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          <dc:creator>Molly Segal</dc:creator>

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          <title>Why we made a podcast about Bear 148</title>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2019 13:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description>A well-known grizzly bear in Banff was relocated, then shot by a trophy hunter. Here&#039;s why her story is now the subject of The Narwhal&#039;s inaugural podcast</description>
          <dc:creator>Molly Segal</dc:creator>

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          <title>Old-growth logging leaves black bears without dens: biologist</title>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2019 23:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description>B.C. protects beaver lodges and occupied migratory bird nests, but there are no regulations protecting black bear dens in most parts of the province. On Vancouver Island, dens are vanishing along with old-growth forests. Meet biologist Helen Davis, who is on a mission to make sure female bears and their cubs have homes
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          <dc:creator>Sarah Cox</dc:creator>

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          <title>Camera traps document polar, grizzly and black bears in same Arctic camp</title>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 23:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description>Scientists say the surprise overlap of all three North American bear species challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions about conservation</description>
          <dc:creator>Courtney Miceli</dc:creator>

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