Hi. I felt sad to have read this story. Sounds like the bears were attracted by the smell of dinner and the bears naturally accepted the invitation to dine, as bears naturally do when hungry
People are being told in that area all the time to not leave food of any type out and to clean up the fruit from their trees and yards to prevent attracting the animals and to prevent having to kill them when they, of course, come to dinner thats just there tempting them. Senseless killings that could have been prevented.
That area has a lot of bears, mostly black bears, and lots of cougars and everyone knows because they're always being told. If this guy didn't know because he's brand new to the area, well, he knows now.
Karmen
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Three B.C. grizzly bears killed near Nelson
(CBC) - A mother grizzly bear and her two cubs have been shot and killed while feeding on garbage on the deck of a mobile home near Nelson in southeastern B.C.
The man who lived in the trailer told authorities he felt his family was threatened, so he shot the bears through an open window.
The cubs died near the trailer. Their mother ran into the woods, and is also believed to have died.
Conservationists say their deaths are a serious loss to the South Selkirk grizzly population, which is not doing well.
"This particular population has not got a lot of animals. The estimate is 60 animals total, and in that one event we lost a breeding female and two cubs, one of which is a female," said Joanne Siderius of the B.C. Conservation Foundation's Bear Aware program.
The B.C. Wildlife Act allows people to shoot bears, if they feel threatened. But Siderius said people living in traditional bear habitats could avoid that by keeping their food and garbage inside.
"If you don't want the bear on your deck, you don't put bear food on your deck. And maybe this particular family wasn't aware that garbage and pet food and freezers can attract bears."
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