Below is a Facebook post from the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service. For 2025, Fiocchi partnered with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to increase the visibility of poaching incidents in an effort to reduce poaching.
A Prince Rupert area man received an $8,050 penalty for unlawfully killing wildlife in northern BC.
Jeff Gladstone was convicted on two counts of hunting, taking, trapping, wounding or killing wildlife out of season, a violation under the Wildlife Act.
Following a report to the RAPP line, the COS (Conservation Officer Service) investigation began in 2019, led by the General Investigations Section and involving field officers from both the Skeena and Omineca regions.
COS arrested a man in possession of an illegal bull elk near Smithers in September 2020. Later that same month, the same man was arrested during a COS road check near Burns Lake while in possession of an illegal bull moose. The moose was killed in Vanderhoof.
The COS investigation was supported by impacted First Nations, including the Wet’suwet’en Nation hereditary chief and the Saik’uz First Nation in Vanderhoof.
The courts also issued a three-year hunting suspension prohibiting Gladstone from hunting outside of his traditional territory, among other conditions.
(Photo credit: British Columbia Conservation Officer Service)