{"id":306867,"date":"2025-11-20T19:25:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/animal-justice-calls-on-alberta-to-scrap-canned-hunting-plan\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:25:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:25:51","slug":"animal-justice-calls-on-alberta-to-scrap-canned-hunting-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=306867","title":{"rendered":"Animal Justice Calls on Alberta to Scrap Canned Hunting Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>CALGARY\u2014Animal Justice, Canada\u2019s leading animal law organization, is calling on the Alberta government to scrap its plan to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/4849815d7fbf4675bbc29fc774880f9f\/0\/96d9e9fd31b78b83b41e12cdded2080741005a5870bd8da79e5434af17bb77f6?cache_buster=1763588520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">legalize<\/a>\u00a0enclosed Cervid Harvest Preserves (CHPs), also known as \u201cshoot farms\u201d or \u201ccanned hunting\u201d where elk or deer could be fenced in and shot for \u201csport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alberta has not permitted captive elk and deer hunting since at least 2002, with successive governments recognizing that the practice is out of step with public values. A 2024\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/4849815d7fbf4675bbc29fc774880f9f\/1\/b9b43b552a7c293dc99b1563e7b5128dedd07337529793b07a461ef6636366d0?cache_buster=1763588520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a>\u00a0showed that only 11% of Canadians and just 8% of Albertans support trophy hunting.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, much of the hunting industry disagrees with captive hunting, recognizing that the concept of \u201cfair chase\u201d is nonexistent in a facility where vulnerable animals are pursued in high-fenced enclosures.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese fenced killing grounds for paying clients haven\u2019t been permitted in Alberta for decades for good reason. They are totally out of step with the values of both the hunting community and the general public here in the province,\u201d said Alexandra Pester, Calgary-based staff lawyer at Animal Justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hunt farms can also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/4849815d7fbf4675bbc29fc774880f9f\/2\/c5420e6be085e800f606dab12ec574be885b5b3d246c72c9dc2d804fdc54fa31?cache_buster=1763588520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">increase the spread<\/a>\u00a0of chronic wasting disease (CWD), tuberculosis, and brucellosis, threatening captive animals, livestock, and wildlife, including vulnerable species like caribou.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government\u2019s role should be in leading efforts to protect wildlife and fragile ecosystems, not encouraging new ways to exploit animals and expose wild populations to disease,\u201d said Ms. Pester.<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<\/p>\n<p>Josh Lynn<br \/>Public Relations Manager<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/animaljustice.ca\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"a0caccd9cecee0c1cec9cdc1cccad5d3d4c9c3c58ec3c1\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY\u2014Animal Justice, Canada\u2019s leading animal law organization, is calling on the Alberta government to scrap its plan to\u00a0legalize\u00a0enclosed Cervid Harvest Preserves (CHPs), also known as \u201cshoot farms\u201d or \u201ccanned hunting\u201d where elk or deer could be fenced in and shot for \u201csport.\u201d Alberta has not permitted captive elk and deer hunting since at least 2002, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12022],"tags":[44903,1330,2027,34666,3522,12721,10933,44801],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-306867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activist","tag-alberta","tag-animal","tag-calls","tag-canned","tag-hunting","tag-justice","tag-plan","tag-scrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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