It’s a fact: bears live in our neighbourhoods. While we may enjoy the occasional glimpse from a safe distance, inviting bears into our backyards can create serious hazards, both for people and for bears. With a growing bear population and residential developments advancing further into bear habitat, it is everyone’s responsibility to make sure that bears and people stay at a safe distance from each other. One person’s bad habits can create problems for a whole neighbourhood. Bears that have become habituated to human smells and garbage are a hazard and are often destroyed. Help them out by not luring them into close contact with humans.

For more information, visit:

http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/cos/info/bearaware/index.html

http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/wld/bearsmart/bearsmintro.html

http://www.bearaware.bc.ca/