Polar Bear Sports Hunting: Canada’s Flawed Interpretation of the International Polar Bear Agreement

Q2 Social Sciences
M. Simpson
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Abstract In 1973 the five polar bear range states (Canada, Norway, Denmark, the United States, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) entered into the International Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears and Their Habitat (“the Agreement”). The Agreement’s intention was to protect polar bears through conservation and management measures including, inter alia, prohibiting the taking of the carnivore. The implementation and enforcement of the Agreement was left to each individual country, resulting in differing management practices and legal frameworks among the signatory states. This is particularly stark in the context of sports hunting, with all nations except Canada outlawing the practice. Canada, striking out on its own, chose to interpret the provisions of Article III of the Agreement in such a way as to allow their provinces and territories to enact legislation to regulate the sports hunting of polar bears. This article argues that sports hunting is not a traditional right of Canada’s indigenous peoples and, therefore, Canada’s interpretation of the Agreement is critically flawed.
北极熊运动狩猎:加拿大对国际北极熊协议的错误解释
1973年,五个北极熊分布国(加拿大、挪威、丹麦、美国和苏维埃社会主义共和国联盟)签署了《保护北极熊及其栖息地国际协定》(以下简称《协定》)。该协定的目的是通过保护和管理措施来保护北极熊,其中包括,除其他外,禁止捕猎这种食肉动物。《协定》的实施和执行由每个国家负责,导致签署国之间的管理做法和法律框架各不相同。在体育狩猎的背景下,这一点尤为明显,除加拿大外,所有国家都禁止这种做法。加拿大选择以这样一种方式来解释《协定》第三条的规定,即允许其各省和地区颁布立法来管制北极熊的运动狩猎。本文认为,狩猎运动不是加拿大土著人民的传统权利,因此,加拿大对《协定》的解释存在严重缺陷。
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期刊介绍: Drawing upon the findings from island biogeography studies, Norman Myers estimates that we are losing between 50-200 species per day, a rate 120,000 times greater than the background rate during prehistoric times. Worse still, the rate is accelerating rapidly. By the year 2000, we may have lost over one million species, counting back from three centuries ago when this trend began. By the middle of the next century, as many as one half of all species may face extinction. Moreover, our rapid destruction of critical ecosystems, such as tropical coral reefs, wetlands, estuaries, and rainforests may seriously impair species" regeneration, a process that has taken several million years after mass extinctions in the past.
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