Alberta’s ministry of forestry and parks dramatically increased the hunting quota on female cougars in the winter 2023-24 season, causing concerns among some conservationists.
According to Government of Alberta documents, the hunting quota for the 2022-23 hunting season was 42 female cougars.
“The response that I got back makes me concerned,” she says. “It seems as though this decision was made largely based on the beliefs of certain stakeholders rather than being science-based.” “If we’re making decisions based solely on the wants of a certain group, the risk we are taking is that it won’t be sustainable in the long run.”
“They have value beyond their value to hunters. They have inherent value as well as their value to the ecosystem as a whole,” she says. “We want to make sure that the rationale behind these decisions is transparent so that the public can be confident that our wildlife is being managed in a way that’s sustainable.”
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