The Conservation Officer Service (COS) is urging caution after receiving reports of a black bear entering vehicles in the Lakeshore Drive area of Emerald Estates.
The COS is urging people to not leave any food or garbage, including packaging, coffee cups and wrappers in your vehicle and lock car doors at all times.
“This bear is learning that cars hold food rewards. It’s up to us to stop making it easy for the bear to get into cars and potentially lead to a serious human-bear conflict,” COS says.
Report any bears in residential areas by phoning the Conservation Officer Service at 1-877-952-7277.
Nadine says
Why would you call a conservation officer to tell them you saw a bear in bear country. Call your friends so they can check out the bear who’s neighbourhood you live in.
Call the district and report the humans that leave out terrible food that not even a bear should probably eat. ( Well if where your food source was is now a bunch of over sized housing units I guess you would have to turn to eating the garbage or move away from your home town too.)
I wonder who we should call when we no longer see any bears in Bear Country? Oh ya call the conservation office and ask them where they put all the bears they conserved.
I bet the number of dead bears out numbers the amount of fines given out to those who actually got the bears killed.
If the bear is just being a bear let it be. If it’s looking for food it probably needs to eat. On the other hand maybe you too would take a bullet to the head rather then starve to death in your own home while everyone else happily throws away the food they don’t want to eat, the very food your not allowed to eat.
To many humans expecting freedom from harm but not willing to ensure the same for anything else.