A black bear cross Tabor Blvd. in Prince George, B.C.
Conservation groups urge city to take measures to reduce bear attractants in community.Newly-released data shows a record 76 black bears were killed in Prince George in 2023, more than doubling previous years, as the north-central B.C. city once again led the province in how many of the animals were killed.
The 76 animals killed in Prince George were the most in a single municipality since the Fur-Bearers started releasing the data in 2016, and followed a year referred to by Prince George RCMP as "bearmaggedon," as numerous bear sightings led to a plea for people not to use 911 to report non-emergency bear sightings.
B.C.'s Environment Ministry says bears are only killed after officers determine they are not candidates for relocation or rehabilitation. That includes cases where bears have become habituated to eating garbage in urban environments.Lesley Fox, executive director of the Fur-Bearers, also expressed frustration that Prince George was topping its list "year after year after year."
Among the solutions she suggested were adding locking mechanisms to garbage cans, and the city instructing bylaw officers to take a more punitive approach to people who were not managing attractants on their properties.experimented with bear-resistant garbage cans
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