Yukon Hunting - Department of Environment - Government of Yukon

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Attracting Dangerous Wildlife
u It is unlawful to feed dangerous wildlife, or to leave food or garbage in a place
where dangerous wildlife may have access to it. Dangerous wildlife includes bears,
foxes, coyotes, wolves and cougars.
u A Conservation Officer can enter and inspect a building, other than a dwelling
house, without a warrant if the officer believes on reasonable grounds that
dangerous wildlife is or might be attracted to the place.
u If a Conservation Officer believes that an attractant poses a risk to public safety
the Officer may issue a Dangerous Wildlife Protection Order directing the person
in charge to clean up, contain or remove the attractant.
Baiting and Poisoning
It is unlawful to:
u use bait to hunt big game other than wolves or coyotes, or
u possess or use poison or drugs to kill, injure, disable or capture wildlife.
Definitions
Bait means anything placed for luring or attracting wildlife by its sense
of smell or taste but does not include parts of legally taken wildlife not
reasonably suitable for human consumption that are located at the place in
the field where the wildÌife died.
Hunting means shooting at, attracting, searching for, chasing, flushing,
pursuing, following after or on the trail of, stalking or lying in wait for wildlife.
If you do, or try to do, any of these things (a) with the intent to wound, kill or
capture wildlife, or (b) while in the possession of a firearm or other weapon,
you are considered to be hunting even if you do not actually wound, kill or
capture wildlife.
Wildlife means a vertebrate animal of any species that is wild by nature, and
includes wildlife in captivity but does not include fish. When referenced in
the Wildlife Act and this booklet, the word wildlife includes dead or live wildlife,
the whole or any part of wildlife, and the eggs and sperm of wildlife.
Specially Protected Wildlife means cougar, gyrfalcon, peregrine falcon,
trumpeter swan and the Chisana Caribou Herd.
Big Game Animal means moose, caribou, wood bison, muskox, sheep, goat,
deer, elk, black bear, grizzly bear, polar bear, wolf, wolverine and coyote.
Small Game Animal means snowshoe hare, arctic ground squirrel
and porcupine.
Game Bird means grouse and ptarmigan.
Carcass includes ALL the body parts of a dead animal.
Possession means having something in any place for the use or benefit of
yourself or another person. This includes something that you keep off your
property or in the possession of another person.
When one person in a group has something in their possession with the
knowledge and consent of the rest, it is considered to be in the possession
of each member of the group.