The B.C. Wildlife Federation says the province’s 2017 ban on grizzly bear hunting was “a shortsighted move” made without scientific justification, renewing debate over wildlife management.

Hunting advocacy organizations and politicians are inciting a moral panic about grizzly bears, oversimplifying an inherently complex ecological problem.

In the 1970s, the Florida black bear population dipped below 500, sparking a dedicated state-wide conservation effort, per ...