When a father and son went illegally hunting for bears, they did not know a camera was running.
By Kyle Swenson Kyle Swenson Reporter for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow March 29 at 4:41 AM Nearly a year ago, a shirtless man and his father, also shirtless except for a black vest, stalked through the wilderness on Esther Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska. They were searching for prey.
Owen Renner fired two rifle blasts into the mother, and then, realizing the panicked cubs were also present, Andrew Renner shot and killed them. The film was rolling because the bears were part of a research project by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Forest Service, a study to determine how a dwindling bear in the region had adapted to an increase in human activity. Killing the cubs or a mother with cubs is illegal on Esther Island by state law.
“Federal law currently forbids this practice on national preserves in Alaska, but the current administration is looking to remove such prohibitions,” the Humane Society said in a release. “If this heinous cruelty occurs while protections are already in place, overturning them would all but encourage these massacres to continue.”
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