In Alberta, I am pretty sure that the law requires all hunters to extract the entire carcass and have the animal butchered even if they don't want the meat. We definitely get trophy hunters here, but last I heard a permit for a foreigner to hunt a sheep was in the neighbourhood of $100000.
We also have one of the most well protected parks in Alberta that exists because of a group of hunters and trappers who convinced the government to set it aside. Willmore has become so great that animals who were becoming scarce in Jasper have grown plentiful in Willmore and are now migrating back into Jasper.
As sad as it is, the area that we set aside for hunting has done a better job protecting animals than the area that we set aside to protect nature. (Assuming that that is the reason for National Parks and not to increase tourism)
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