Letter by Bears Matter Consulting to Minister’s Heyman and Donaldson
Link to GlobalBC TV news report Jan 10, 2020 https://globalnews.ca/news/6393361/anmore-couple-legal-issues-rescued-orphaned-black-bear-cub/
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https://thefurbearers.com/blog/statement-coquitlam-bear-killings-and-arrests 07/31/2019 – 12:46 The Fur-Bearers believes that a healthy, safe British Columbia includes a well-funded and trained Conservation Officer Service that has appropriate third party oversight and a clear mandate for interacting with wildlife and the public. Letters sent… Read More »Action Alert & STATEMENT ON COQUITLAM BEAR KILLINGS AND ARRESTS Fur-Bearers
Go to Link and Read about The Fur Bearers Court Case that questions the BC Conservation Officer’s power to kill whatever animals they deem they need to kill? Should there be more parameters, more criteria, more oversight? Killing bear cubs… Read More »BC CONSERVATION OFFICER AUTHORITY QUESTIONED: APPEAL FILED TO SUPREME COURT OF CANADA
November 29, 2017 Dear Premier Horgan et al, We are writing to file a public service complaint regarding the operational and recruitment (or hiring) practices of the BC Conservation Officer Service (COS). We assert that a clear conflict of interest… Read More »November 29, 2017 Letter of Complaint to Premier Horgan; re: The Recruitment and Operations of Conservation Officers in B.C.
http://www.brycecasavant.ca/2017/11/01/aiming-change-update-regarding-grizzly-bear-management-bc/ The deadline for the public consultation process on the Grizzly Bear hunt is tomorrow (November 2nd 2017). During the month long window for public comments the Auditor General (AG) released ( see in Bears Matter Blog postings) their audit… Read More »Bryce Casavant: Aiming for Change & Grizzly Bear Management & Conservation Officer Service
http://www.pqbnews.com/opinion/letters/317838591.html in response to article July 14th: Famous Bear Cubs Calling Errington Home for Now by Carli Berry http://www.pqbnews.com/news/315038451.html
Dear Editor,
In 2004 I was involved in a ‘save the cubs’ campaign on the North Shore, very much like the one playing out in Errington at this present time, minus social media.
Our conservation officer killed a yearling cub and a cub of the year with a lethal injection of a tranquilizer drug, kids and media watching.
A short time later another cub of the year was rescued by a District of North Vancouver park ranger and myself and then he too was killed in front of us because he was deemed ‘habituated’ and ‘food conditioned’ by the powers that be in Victoria.
That was the straw that broke the public confidence in the conservation officer service (COS) to do the right and humane thing. Intuitively, the public understand what we in the bear world know to be true: cubs of the year (COY) are not ‘habituated’ to humans forever or ‘food conditioned’ to garbage forever if rehabbed properly and given a remote location release.
This has been proven time and time again over many years with thousands of cubs of the year being successfully released around the world regardless of their early experience before 12 months of age.
There are many experts who have compiled and reported on the data and the Ministry of the Environment have these reports.
So why do they not set policy which reflects known science? Why does the COS create such a long, drawn-out media frenzy over two tiny cubs? It boggles my mind. Here we are 11 years later fighting again to save cubs from a senseless kill order at the same time fighting to save a man’s career in the public service?
Many, many undiscovered orphan cubs in B.C. are left to die as a result of the spring bear hunt, vehicle strikes, industrial development and nuisance mothers.
When we, as a community, learn about a few token cubs that can be rescued and taken to a privately funded, non-profit rehabilitation facility we expect that to happen without drama or spectacle. All we ask of the government is to let us bring a tiny bit of fairness to a tiny newborn bear in an increasingly unfair world.
Barbara Murray, B.C. Bear Advocate
Nanoose Bay
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