A Future for Bowhunting in British Columbia.
An effective but overlooked tool for wildlife management in British Columbia
Our Active Advocacy Issues
Regulatory Change.
Regulatory change should align with a sound, science-based stewardship plan. Using various weapons and tactics, bowhunting should be used as a wildlife management tool and a method to ‘maintain’ hunting opportunity. Prior to a lottery.
Wildlife Management.
Bowhunters support sound wildlife management. Complex social issues while maintaining respect for other users of the land is important when looking to a future of healthy wildlife populations.
Bowhunter Mis-information.
The UBBC hope to provide positive information about bowhunting and ensure that stakeholders and decision makers are clear ‘about’ bowhunting when forming decisions.
In British Columbia presently close to 30% of resident hunters choose to hunt with a bow at some point in their hunting season.
The mission of the UBBC is to coordinate the voice of bowhunters in British Columbia.
The United Bowhunters of BC was formed at the request of the Ministry to the BC Archery Association (BCAA) and Traditional Bowhunters of BC (TBBC) to ‘unite’ bowhunters and provide Government a unified voice for bowhunting opportunity in BC
Our Guiding Principles
Using knowledge, experience and education to promote:
Ethical conduct of bowhunters
Hunter recruitment and youth involvement
Bowhunting as a wildlife management tool
Wildlife Conservation
The UBBC as a referral body to Government and Wildlife managers
Involvement in decisions which effect the bowhunting community
Increased bowhunting opportunities in British Columbia
““A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact.””
— Aldo Leopold, the father of wildlife conservation