17-Year Old Girl Kills 450 Pound Bear

[donavannj]

We're the ones who spread around most of the harmful insects and diseases carrying rodents that have eradicated species. We're to blame for that.

The humans largely responsible for those are long dead and couldn't have done anything about them anyways. And such parasites tag along with any mega-fauna species (meaning species that weigh over 100 lbs or 40 kg) such as elephants, deer, or humans when they migrate from feeding ground to feeding ground, amongst other migratory species.

Efforts against species extinction should be more concentrated in developing countries such as India and China anyways, since they're the ones causing the most species die-off at this point. Government agencies in the US and Canada have very effective policies in place to keep a species dying out from overpopulation or over-hunting. Bears in Canada are nowhere near endangered species levels, with the possible exception of the grizzly. Allowing people to hunt limited numbers of animals allows the government wildlife agencies responsible for these animals to recoup a bit of their operating costs AND to keep the populations near healthy levels which don't put the species at risk of mass starvation from overpopulation.