US EditionA lawsuit challenges an Alaska program that allows killing bears as a way to rebuild a caribou herd
The lawsuit argues the Alaska program authorizes unlimited bear kills without population monitoring, threatening sustainability while aiming to boost a declining caribou herd.
- On Monday, Alaska Wildlife Alliance and Center for Biological Diversity sued over a state program authorizing killing brown and black bears to boost the Mulchatna caribou herd in southwest Alaska.
- The Mulchatna herd declined from a late-1990s peak of around 190,000 to about 13,000 by 2019, and the Alaska Board of Game and Alaska Department of Fish and Game say predation limits survival.
- Altogether, Fish and Game removed 180 bears in 2023–2024, and in May 2023 killed `every single brown and black bear it found within the 1,200-square-mile focus area`, with no kill limits across a region the size of Indiana.
- An Alaska court previously struck down the program as unconstitutional for lacking scientific evidence, and today's lawsuit filed in Alaska Superior Court challenges its reinstatement under Article VIII, Section 4.
- The Board's July action authorized the program through 2028, granting the Alaska Department of Fish and Game authority to aerially shoot bears across 40,000 square miles near national parks and refuges without population data.
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Lawsuit challenges state program that allows killing of Southwest Alaska bears in effort to rebuild a caribou herd
Monday’s lawsuit is the latest in an ongoing legal fight over what Fish and Game has cast as an effort to restore the Mulchatna caribou herd in Southwestern Alaska.
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A lawsuit challenges an Alaska program that allows killing bears as a way to rebuild a caribou herd
Conservation groups are suing over a program that authorizes killing brown and black bears as a way to help grow the size of a southwest Alaska caribou herd.
Lawsuit Challenges Alaska Board of Game Plan to Gun Down Bears
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Alaska Wildlife Alliance and the Center for Biological Diversity sued the Alaska Board of Game today for violating the Alaska Constitution when adopting a predator control program authorizing the killing of an unlimited number of brown and black bears across 40,000 square miles in southwestern Alaska.
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