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An environmental group is decrying a Safari Club International donation of $60,000 to the Guide Outfitters Association of B.C. within two months of the provincial election and only days before the start of the province’s controversial spring bear hunt.

Victoria’s Dogwood Initiative fears the U.S.-based, trophy-hunting organization is trying to sway the election with a substantial donation to an industry fighting to maintain the widely unpopular grizzly trophy hunt.

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“There is a real gap between where most of the public in B.C. is at on the international trophy-hunting industry and the government’s policies,” Dogwood spokesman Kai Nagata said in an interview Wednesday.

“We’re raising the question of what role those donations have to play in shaping that position. This is also an interesting insight into how the guide-outfitters have been able to maintain such a consistent record of activism and donations … This is very distasteful to a lot of British Columbians.”