7 ours qui "dérangeaient les humains" abattus en 4

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En Colombie-Britannique (Canada) ... Même une maman ourse a été tuée avec ses 3 oursons !!!!!!!!!


By MARGARET SPEIRS
Aug 16 2006


SEVEN bears had to be shot after venturing too close to humans in their search for food recently.

In all cases from Aug. 6 to Aug. 9, tranquilizing and the relocating the bears was not an option, say conservation officers.

The first bear to be killed was a black one who was in the area of Eby St. and Park Ave. Aug. 6.

In that case, RCMP Constable Rochelle Patenaude said it was destroyed by police officers because it posed a danger to public safety.

Conservation officers arrived shortly afterward to remove the bear.

Local conservation officer Blair Thin, who was in Kitimat on another bear matter, said police did the right thing.

"I was en route but an RCMP member decided to take care of the bear, seeing as I wasn't there at the time," Thin said.

"It was a good call. With the amount of people around that day, it was definitely a good call," he added, referring to the Riverboat Days crowds.

On Aug. 9, a sow and her three cubs had to be put down near Mountainview Elementary School on the bench. Children were playing in the area.

The sow and cubs were reportedly getting into garbage in that area.

The criteria used to relocate bears couldn't be applied because the bears were deemed to be an immediate public safety risk, he said.

Relocation would require tranquilizing the bears and the opportunity didn't present itself, Thin added.

"We tried to tree all the bears to safely contain them but the sow was unwilling to tree," he said, adding a bear can't be tranquilized on the ground because it will run and become a safety hazard.

"I don't think that the success rate for relocating whole family units is very good," Thin added.

That same day, Thin responded to a call in Gitanyow where a pair of grizzly bears were interfering with fish processing, and getting into a smokehouse and into garbage.

The bears had become used to human contact and the presence of dogs, whose barking failed to drive them away.

"We received reports that the bears just completely ignored these animals so we made a decision again according to public safety risk and destroyed the bears," he said.

He said it seems that there are more bears around this year than last year, although he didn't have the statistics with him to confirm that assumption.

"It could just be attributed to a few mild winters and a very good berry season that would bring them in with lots of fruit on the trees and backyards," he said, about why the bears are in town.

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