ATTAQUES D'OURS-Pas trop d'inquiétude en Mauricie

[Animal 0]

Les trappeurs et les chasseurs du Québec les tuent autant au printemps qu'en automne ... C'est normal qu'il n'y ait pas trop d'inquiétude à se faire ! :evil:

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Le mardi 28 juin 2005

ATTAQUES D'OURS

Pas trop d'inquiétude en Mauricie

Myriam Bacon

Le Nouvelliste

Trois-Rivières

Les randonneurs qui arpenteront les sentiers du parc national de la Mauricie peuvent avoir l'esprit tranquille. Selon un document du ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec, il est plus probable d'être happé par une voiture ou mordu par un chien qu'attaqué par un ours.


La question de la sécurité dans nos sentiers peut cependant se poser quelques jours après une deuxième attaque de grizzly à l'endroit de Québécois en Alberta.
Le Québec ne compte pas d'ours bruns, dont le grizzly est une sous-espèce présente en Amérique du Nord, comme ceux responsables des attaques à l'endroit d'Isabelle Dubé à Canmore en Alberta et, plus récemment, de Jean Daniel à Banff en Alberta également.
Les ours qui peuplent les forêts du parc national de la Mauricie sont des ours noirs, membres de la même famille des ursidés, tout comme les ours bruns. «Le grizzly est un chasseur. Il est territorial et beaucoup plus grand que l'ours noir», explique Albert van Dijk, chef de la conservation des ressources au parc national.

Plus de détails dans l'édition du 28 juin.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/article/article_complet.php?path=/actualites/article/28/5,724,0,062005,1085806.php
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(Concernant l'autre Québécois (Jean Daniel) qui a été attaqué par un ours, voici un article trouvé sur un site de chasseur. La maman ours, qui était accompagnée de ses petits, n'a seulement qu'égratigné le campeur imprudent):

Camper Awakens To Grizzlies

An 18-year-old camper fled for his life yesterday after a grizzly bear bit him on the behind.

Quebecer Jean Daniel was sleeping just before the terrifying ordeal, said Parks Canada spokesman Marjorie Huculak.

"When he woke up and opened his eyes there was (a female bear) and her three cubs staring at him. So what he did then was he kind of tried to roll over, and as he rolled over, she bit him on the butt.

"He then got out of the sleeping bag and ran through the forest. As he ran through the forest she followed him for a bit and then stopped."

The man suffered minor injuries to both his backside and his feet - the result of his frantically fleeing through the forest in bare feet, Huculak said. He ran to the Banff Centre nearby and was taken to Mineral Springs Hospital for treatment.

The incident follows the fatal June 5 mauling of Canmore resident Isabelle Dube by a grizzly on a trail on the northern edge of Canmore.

Huculak said that as of late yesterday afternoon the bear, which has a radio collar, was being monitored by wardens, but that no decisions regarding the bear's future had been made.

The grizzly, known to wardens as Bear 66, and its cubs have been active on the fringes of the Banff townsite since this spring, and have led to periodic trail closures and bear-in-area warnings for the past few months.

Ian Syme, chief warden for Parks Canada's Banff Field Unit, wouldn't comment yesterday.

Relocating a female bear with three cubs is one option to deal with a bear who has approached humans, but it's one with inherent risks for the cubs, said bear expert Stephen Herrero, a University of Calgary professor.

"It's tough with three young bears because the safety and security of those three young bears significantly depends on mother's knowledge of the environment," Herrero said.

He said if aversive conditioning of the bear - who has been pelted with rubber bullets in the past and has heard a lot of cracker shells from the guns of wardens - doesn't work, then relocation is another option.

Huculak emphasized the incident illustrates why Parks Canada limits camping to specified areas.

Daniel was reportedly camped illegally in a closed section of forest on the fringe of town.

"We ask people to camp in specific areas for a reason," Huculuk said. The camper hadn't been charged as of yesterday.

"The big message would be: For crying out loud, stay in (legal) facilities," said Glen Peers, human/wildlife conflict specialist for Banff National Park.

Peers said bear No. 66 did not act aggressively with Daniel nor with the three people she encountered next, a man on his own and two hikers a little further on.

"The interactions were totally benign, and she never demonstrated aggressive behaviour. The bear did everything right."

Peers said Daniel's encounter with her should never have happened. There'll be no repercussions for the bear, he said.