Wildlife popoulations have to be controlled, and bears have no natural predators.
The Department of Conservation doesn’t just let peope kill as many bears as they want. They compute how many bears there are and how many the habitat can support, and regulate hunting seasons/harvests accordingly.
Same thing with deer. When deer get overpopulated they are susceptible to diseases like chronic wasting disease that can wipe out entire herds.
Hunters were the original conservationists, and hunters supply the lion’s share of wildlife conservation funding.
Mairdie pays people to kill cattle/pigs/chickens when she buys meat at the grocery store, and that’s way less of a “fair fight” than shooting a bear in a tree out in the wild where it lived free until the very end.
Other than man. Dying of “natural causes” may sound nice, but for a bear, it could be starvation, or succumbing to wounds from fighting other bears.