Even though our numbers are guestimates, trends in hunter harvest and success rates, the number of road kills and nuisance bear complaints, all indicate that bear numbers are relatively high and the population is healthy. Barry Sabean, Director, Wildlife Division, Kentville answers. Hunting is only allowed on our most common species and is strictly regulated to ensure the populations are not threatened. Barry Sabean, Director, Wildlife Division, Kentville answers. Canada has made great strides in improving the humaneness of its trapping methods and is currently a world leader in this field.
Trapping produces furs which are a beautiful natural product and which are renewable resources.
Seasons and bag limits are carefully controlled to ensure that the long term health of the populations are not threatened. Tony Duke, Manager Wildlife Resources, Kentville answers. The species of wildlife that live in a forest depend on the types of trees growing there and the age of the forest. The birds and small mammals, lichens, mosses, insects and other organisms living in a young maple and birch forest, are entirely different than those living in the tall old forests of spruce and hemlock. However there are some species, large mammals for example, that use most types of forest.