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BEAR Group, Glen Gardner. 9,960 likes · 247 talking about this. We're a grassroots group working toward permanent protection for New Jersey's black bears through the creation of Bear Smart communities.
The BEAR Group, formed in the 1970s when New Jersey’s bear population was nearly exhausted by trophy hunting, gathered in Mendham, NJ, on Saturday, Nov. 20, to protest the upcoming bear hunt. Protesters stood on Main Street holding signs and chanting, “Fish and game lie, bears are gonna die.”
Bear hunts are cruel and do not reduce complaints or incidents. Legislators who care about reducing bear incidents should support legislation that limits bears access to human food, such as the new feeding ban (below). Bear Smart initiatives (education, garbage control, and other nonlethal methods) prevent incidents with bears.
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APLNJ and the Bear Education And Resource Group host the coalition, representing over 800,000 New Jersey residents, and have successfully stopped eleven bear hunts, removed the state parks from 2018-2021, and prevented seven others from taking place in the 1990s.
5 ημέρες πριν · On October 15, Brian Melvin arrowed a massive 770-pound black bear in New Jersey. It was just the third hunting season since the bear hunt was restored in the state (the hunt was canceled by Governor Phil Murphy in 2018 but reinstated in 2022 after the Fish and Game Council declared an “emergency” with human-bear interaction on the rise). Melvin’s story of the hunt was widely publicized ...
2024: NEW Call to Action for Bears. Please visit our black bear advocacy page here. APLNJ has new data that shows the bear population is half what the Fish and Game Council claimed it to be in order to get its 2022 “emergency” bear hunt.