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MONTH: March 2006

Zoo, conservationists buy out hunting rights

PITTSBURGH, VANCOUVER ––The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium and the British Columbia-based Raincoast Conserv-ation Foundation have each taken sizeable habitats away from trophy hunters with recent land acquisitions.


The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium announced on January 9 that it is spending $2.5 million to buy the 615-acre Glen Savage Ranch from Jerry and Iris Leydig of Fairhope, Pennsylvania.


“The ranch now offers hunting of whitetail deer, elk, red stags, wild boar, buffalo and black bear. That will end,” wrote Bill Zlatos of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “Instead, the ranch will become “an education and conservation center for breeding elephants and other animals,” Zlatos said.


The Raincoast Conservation Found-ation on December 12, 2005 disclosed that a month earlier it paid $1.35 million Canadian (about $1 million U.S.) to acquire the guiding and outfitting rights to more than 20,000 square kilometers of B.C. coastal habitat stretching from northern Vancouver Island to Princess Royal Island.


“Raincoast, with the six first nations that occupy the territory, intends to put an immediate end to commercial hunting in the area,” wrote Nicholas Read of the Vancouver Sun. “No one from outside B.C. will be permitted to kill animals in the region for sport. B.C. residents, who operate under different regulations, may continue to hunt in the area, but members of the first nations hope to see an end to that early next year.”