Eagle Poaching in BC: Subsidizing the Indian Black Market

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Under the province’s Wildlife Act, the perpetrators could face penalties for poaching of up to $50,000 or six months in jail for a first offence, or both. For trafficking eagle parts: a year in jail and $100,000 fine, or both for each count. Federally, the charges for illegal exporting of the parts were even stiffer: up to five years in jail and $150,000 fine.

But, after the sentence for one of the traffickers was handed down last week, optimism that the poachers would be severely dealt with by our justice system was quickly dampened.

One of the suspects received a paltry fine of $1,450 after pleading guilty to a pair of counts relating to the trafficking of eagle parts.

This entry was written by Aaron Unruh and posted on Fri Apr 6, 2007 at 7:04 pm and filed under Native Issues. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

Comments (5) to “Eagle Poaching in BC: Subsidizing the Indian Black Market”

  1. Anonymous wrote:

    Yawn

    Posted on 07-Apr-07 at 5:11 am | Permalink

  2. rod wrote:

    I have not seen any coverage of this on CBC or CTV. Can you imagine if a white guy had done this, the CBC would have a 2 hour special hosted by Dave Suzuki and Jack Layton. Oh Ya the UN would had something to say as well.

    Posted on 08-Apr-07 at 12:17 pm | Permalink

  3. Smarter than Ezra wrote:

    Actually, the CBC did do a special on this last fall.

    http://www.chilliwacktimes.com.....06nn2.html

    It just took Aaron this long to bitch about it.

    Posted on 08-Apr-07 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

  4. Smarter than Ezra wrote:

    It’s good to see people writing about this. Thanks Aaron! But I see people don’t even want to enter into a meaningful debate about this. Thanks Aaron for “bitching” about this.

    Posted on 08-Apr-07 at 8:55 pm | Permalink

  5. Hammertoe wrote:

    considering that the entire province of BC is under Land Claim and the natives had nothing to do with destroying the eagle’s enviroment. I would say that the immigrants (Canadians) are somewhat at fault for letting species in the area almost get to the point of extinction.

    Posted on 11-Apr-07 at 11:35 am | Permalink

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