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Show "Say Goodbye" Film Draws Fire of Conservation Group wandered off unharmed a little later, while the biologists watched. The narrator does not mention that. The data from such tagging projects will, in fact, better help man in providing provid-ing the polar bear a hopeful future. Three suits were brought in Alaska courts against Wolper Productions, Inc.; NBC, who first aired the film, and Quaker Quak-er Oats Company, sponsor of the film. Division officials feel that further distribution of "Say Good-bye" will only undermine the efforts of the conservation groups and agencies to manage and preserve valauble wildlife resources, and does nothing to contribute to the conservation of wildlife. The public should be aware of this. The Utah Division of Wildlife Wild-life Resources lias learned that a documentary film on declining declin-ing wildlife, "Say Good-bye", is currently being released to schools and television stations. The film, produced by Wolper Productions, Inc., distorts the truth about conservation and the management of wildlife populations. pop-ulations. First presented on television two years ago, "Say Goodbye" came under fire from organized organiz-ed conservation organizations, such as the International Association As-sociation of Game, Fish and Conservation Commissioners; U.S. Bureau of Sport, Fisheries and Wildlife; and the National Wildlife Federation for its cleverly clev-erly intercut film sequences gathered from several sources, More than one sequence in the film was staged or phony (including one of a small doe successfully rightingoff a cougar), coug-ar), but the one that aroused the ire of conservation organizations organ-izations depicted an alleged polar bear hunt on the sea ice off Alaska. It shows a hunter in a helicopter heli-copter shooting a female polar bear that has two cubs in tow. The narrator does not explain that both the shooting of a bear from an aircraft and the killing of a mother is illegal. There is a close-up of the older bear, supposedly in her death throes, twisting on the ice while her youngsters look on. This scene is totally fraudulent. fraud-ulent. The film footage was acquired ac-quired in part from Alaska wildlife authorities and has been cut and patched to fit the film. In reality, the female bear is being shot with a harmless drug (not a bullet) from a gas-operated gas-operated gun as part of a bear research program in which the animals are immobilized, weighed, measured and tagged. They recover with no harmful effects. This mother and her cubs |