An expert with the Nuxalk Nation’s fisheries and wildlife program says research shows that ecotourism done right isn’t a driving factor in conflict between bears and humans
Grizzly bears that visited ecotourism areas along a river on the province’s central coast were less likely than others to encounter conflict with people in communities downstream, a new study by British Columbia -based researchers has found.
“It goes back centuries if not thousands of years, relationship with the bears, and we really identify with them in this part of the Great Bear Rainforest.” But Field said the B.C.-based study reached a different conclusion in the context of ecotourism in the Bella Coola Valley. The researchers gathered samples during late summer and fall salmon runs from 2019 to 2021 and identified 34 bears that visited the ecotourism area at least once.
The raw data alone suggested that a match was rare. But it didn’t consider the possible explanation that the population of grizzlies that did not visit the ecotourism area was much larger than the population of bears that did. The study points to “other human-caused drivers of conflict” between people and bears, such as fruit trees and salmon-cleaning stations that attract hungry grizzlies.
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