Canada: Fort St. John hunter fined $5,000 for killing northern mountain caribou

Canada: Fort St. John hunter fined $5,000 for killing northern mountain caribou

https://energeticcity.ca/2025/05/09/fort-st-john-hunter-fined-5000-for-killing-northern-mountain-caribou/

05/09/2025

A local man has been fined thousands of dollars and banned from hunting in B.C. for three years for killing an at-risk species.

According to a press release from the Ministry of Environment and Parks, the incident occurred in October 2022 in the Pink Mountain area, when the man killed an animal he misidentified as a white-tailed buck.

Once he began to harvest the animal, he realized he had actually killed a northern mountain cow caribou, a species on the province’s blue list that tracks animals at risk of endangerment.

Upon discovering the animal’s actual species, the man self-reported the incident to the Conservation Officer Service (COS). The COS retrieved the animal’s body and donated it to a local First Nation.

Adam Ward-Pattison plead guilty to killing wildlife not with an open season, a violation of the Wildlife Act.

He has been fined $5,015, the majority of which will go to the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation, and is prohibited from hunting or accompanying hunters anywhere in the province for three years.

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