Is Bigfoot Endangered?

The more relevant question should be, “Does Bigfoot even exist?” But the lack of physical evidence verifying the existence of Bigfoot hasn’t stopped a petition from being introduced into Canada’s House of Commons seeking legislation protecting it as an endangered species.

The person behind the petition, Todd Standing, claims to have shot 12 seconds of “iffy looking” Bigfoot footage and has been interviewed by radio personality Art Bell. Does this scenario sound familiar; does it make you think Ivory-billed Woodpecker exploits of recent years in the U.S., perhaps?

Unlike Bigfoot, we know that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker once existed, and there is no evidence of outright fraud to perpetuate belief in the continued existence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. But the evidence presented to date to support the existence of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers in the bottomland hardwood forests of the U.S. is certainly less than conclusive.

My hat goes off to Bill Pulliam for his detailed examination of the Luneau video (here and here), but where he sees field marks that convince him that the video shows an Ivory-billed Woodpecker, I see only blurry black and white blobs that I have to accept on faith represent a bird, much less a woodpecker of some sort. Maybe I'm in greater need of glasses than I realized!

Anyway, recent accounts of the Canadian Bigfoot episode can be found at Cryptomundo (even they express skepticism about Standing’s claims) and the BigCityLib Strikes Back blog.