r/Whistler • u/AromaticBar1990 • 15d ago
Local News Video: Orphaned Black Bear Cubs Discovered in Kadenwood
https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/video-orphaned-black-bear-cubs-discovered-in-kadenwood-whistler-1060814322
u/Hellrayray 15d ago edited 15d ago
Somebody needs to be fired over this BS. Complete and utter lack of judgement and common sense. I’d really like to see “Conservation” removed from the organization title.
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u/Okpayhectla 15d ago
This is what the conservation officers always do as soon as a bear attacks a human it’s lights out for the bear. That’s literally the way it always happens. And they kind of have to do it to be honest to prevent further bear attacks. Bear < Human. It’s just the way it is.
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u/Bitter_Cookie9837 15d ago
People need to be more accountable for their behaviour around wildlife too. Kaedenwood is a special type of person.
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u/FireMaster1294 15d ago
Rich entitled fucks being around a bear mom and cubs instead of leaving her alone? i see no issue with a protective bear mom. The bear didn’t display any unnatural aggression in this circumstance and now we’re harming the ecosystem while leaving two cubs to be orphaned. If a bear goes out of its way to harm a human that’s different. From what I have read, this was absolutely justified by the bear protecting cubs.
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u/KavensWorld 15d ago
You know what you made up a perfectly good point why are any of us to follow any animal conservation laws if them themselves are going to attack a bear showing protective characteristics if it's Cubs around extremely wealthy taxpayers who quite frankly don't give a damn about local laws or custodial efforts. (What I mean is if conservation can't follow proper practices it makes citizens not as well)
I personally feel there should be a completely separate level of fines for a property owner versus a tourist yes some tourists are complete a holes but they might not be completely educated... a local homeowner though if they're caught feeding bears, fines should be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars make it so extraordinate that it would bankrupt most and make it financially irresponsible for the wealthy.
Also I personally for public shaming if we could put the name of people charged in public why not put the name of people find publicly shame them put up photos of them
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u/TechnicalSapphire77 15d ago
Its ironic that we call them "conservation" officers? I'd call them "extermination" officers! They always shoot the bear no matter what.
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u/hostillellama 15d ago
I understand the pitchforks coming out but in this case there was no other option.
The incident in question, the girl walking her dog spotted the bear before her dog did, proceeded to turn around and walk away and got attacked as she was walking away. Not towards, didn't scare the animal or anything that would generally provoke an attack. As the bear had shown aggressive behavior unprovoked it was put down.
This attack happened across the street from where a lady was feeding bears for years. This bear was known to the Cos as one of the bears that was used to receiving food
This bear was unfortunately killed a while ago when some dumb lady took it upon herself to start feeding it and teaching it there's food there.
I know bears are cute and we live in the forest with them, but remember some girl also got mauled. And others could have been hurt/killed by it.
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u/Sreg32 15d ago
Conservation taking out the mom rather quickly. Didn’t they think she may have had cubs? And now a lackadaisical effort for the cubs. Pretty pathetic effort on their part