— An Alberta man charged with killing a collared grizzly bear that was being tracked for research will pay nearly $13,000 in fines, but some say it doesn’t go far enough to protect the threatened species. 141 in Jasper National Park had stopped working near Edson, about 200 kilometres west of Edmonton. “The grizzly bear in Alberta is a threatened species.”Gordon Stenhouse, a scientist with the fRI Research Grizzly Bear Program, said he also had higher expectations. Grizzly bears were listed as threatened in Alberta in 2010 when it was determined there were only about 700 left. Officials with Jasper National Park declined to comment.

Source: National Post September 22, 2017 07:52 UTC