The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH) was established in 1928, and is Canada's leading conservation organization, as well as a non-profit registered charity. The Federation lobbies for the protection of wildlife and Canadian outdoor traditions. As of 2007, it has 82,000 members, and 655 membership clubs.
The OFAH is notable in that it opposes the
Canadian Firearms Registry
The Canadian Firearms Registry () is the gun registry of Canada, requiring the registration of all restricted and prohibited firearms in the country. It is managed by the Canadian Firearms Program of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) as ...
, and launched a lawsuit against the Ontario Liberal government in order to have the spring bear hunt reinstated.
The OFAH was successful in having the section of the ''
Lord's Day Act'' repealed which banned Sunday gun hunting in Ontario.
Lately, the OFAH has been campaigning to have the
cormorant
Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags. Several different classifications of the family have been proposed, but in 2021 the International Ornithologists' Union (IOU) ado ...
population in Ontario controlled.
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External links
*{{official, http://www.ofah.org/
Environmental organizations based in Ontario