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Alan Herscovici is Executive Vice-President of the Fur Council of Canada, author of Second Nature: The Animal-Rights Controversy, and chair of the Canadian Fur Industry Adjustment Committee, which brought together Cree trappers, designers, and other sectors of the fur trade to encourage strategic planning for international competitiveness.
Alan Herscovici has this to say ...
"In the early 1990s when the demand for fur was lower and trappers were going out less, in many areas people immediately began seeing problems caused by beaver. When this happens, the wildlife department has to go out to hunt beavers, trap them and break up dams at the taxpayers' expense. It's at these times that you start to see the management role that the trade plays."
Quoted in "Fur Fashion to the Rescue : Trapping Eases New Zealand's Plague of Possums", by Hattie Klotz, Ottawa Citizen, Mar. 8, 2001.
"Biologists are telling us now that there are as many beaver in Canada as when the Europeans first arrived. This is an extraordinary ecological success story after 400 years of trading. Here, you've got a natural resource produced by the land. Beaver and muskrat give an incentive to protect forests because when somebody comes along to log it or build a shopping mall, people can say, 'Wait a minute, this land is producing value and it is supporting people.'"
Quoted in "Fur Fashion to the Rescue : Trapping Eases New Zealand's Plague of Possums", by Hattie Klotz, Ottawa Citizen, Mar. 8, 2001.
See also:
The Rise & Fall of Animal Rights: Holding Activists Accountable by Alan Herscovici. Outside link to Man In Nature.
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