British Columbians demand grizzly bear management as deadly mammals visit Pemberton farmlands
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- In Pemberton, British Columbia, Grizzly bears are making regular visits to farmland properties - travelling into areas they have traditionally not seen before or have seen for decades.
The visits are amassing concerns from locals and triggering many to develop a plan to keep them away before hibernation season ends in early 2024.
Global’s Paul Johnson reports on the complicated issue that seems to have no simple solution.
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As a grizzly bear all my life “ we don’t have any tradition I can remember “😂
I was hoping someone who identifies as a grizzly bear would step forward and offer their perspective.
Humans: “let’s build a community where bears live”
Also humans: “omg why are there bears here?!”
LOL
Bears live everywhere. Grizzlies migrate. These are farms. This is why rural communities are armed. Now the libs want to change that.
Also humans: don't hunt bears
I'm by no means pro trophy hunting, but it is a fine balance between protecting them and protecting our communities
we wouldn't need to protect them if we stopped building them where there's bears lmfao@@Jingling-MelO
You seem like a strong independent. I bet you have a huge understanding of grizzly bears and what they do
"GET THOSE ANIMALS AWAY FROM THE BEARS!!"
hahaha 😂
back in the day, before men grew man buns and carried purses, we bought a thing called a rifle and ammunition and took care of these kinds of problem ourselves. regardless if we were in "city limits" or not. should try it! it's amazing how good you feel for taking care of yourself and loved ones
😂 oh please! If you’re that scared of hair in an elastic band, how in the hell would it be believable that you could face a bear with a gun.
Amazing how there wasn't a problem before the granola eaters got involved, they need hunters to take a certain amount.
what do you have against cereal?
Yep.... let the hunters fix the problem.
The only thing that needs management are the residents.
This wasn't an issue before the NDP decided that an apex predator with no natural predators of the least concern in terms of needing to be protected .... the NDP contrary to science banned hunting grizzly bears which basically caused this problem.
I heard that in the province of British Columbia, there is only 1 percent of old growth forests left. No wonder why the bears come to humans now.
1 percent old growth and 300 percent ew growth which is what keeps catching fire. Old growth is old only because it didn't burn where it was
The bears have no natural predators and there has been an outright ban on hunting grizzly bear for years. This is a problem the NDP created with their wildlife mismanagement. The NDP entirely is to blame for this problem and they know it. That is why that bald politician lied.
Well you heard it so it must be true. Go back to Starbucks with your laptop.
Leave grizzly bears alone
You don’t understand wildlife management.
@@denverwynn4 Spot the underemployed Gen Z
@@denverwynn4because the monkeys with iPhones are so great at managing the planet...
And do you live in the city ? Went to UniMcDiversity ! People are being Eaten Alive ! Check it Out ! This reporter is not telling the truth !
This is what happens when you listen to people who have know idea about wild life. Forcing the ministry in to ending a hunting season, because it doesn't fit into there new world agenda.
exactly
The people who have no idea about wildlife, are the people who decided to build a community in the heart of wildlife country. As I see it, the bears have every right to hunt considering that their survival depends on it, as opposed to the people who hunt them for trophies and then run out for a burger and fries at the local fast food joint.
you clearly have no idea about wildlife, or wildlife management, or why most people hunt....@@MrBuddy-r8w
@@MrBuddy-r8w
All the hunters i know including myself eat bear.
I guess grizzlies are fine-until one of them eats you for lunch. They have to be carefully managed, obviously. They are not an endangered species at this point and hunters should be able to go after them.
If people stay out of their grizzly bears natural habitat, then they won't have to worry about being eaten for lunch. You seem quite fine with bringing in the hunters to put the bears on the endangered list.
@@MrBuddy-r8w
Yeah, its how the numbers stay down.
They are apex predators. They have no enemies so they can make their numbers go up quickly.
As long as the numbers are kept track of carefully im all for it.
Like the bears know the difference between where we want them to be and farmlands.
When you interact with a grizzly you lose. Ask Alaskans...they will tell you to be prepared for an encounter with bear spray and a firearm
You also have to remember we had a lot of fires this year, which could be why we may be seeing a rise in Residencial areas.
I’m more afraid of people! I grew up on a small farm with coyotes, bears, etc…I was most afraid of the raccoons, those things are vicious and keep coming back with a larger family 😂
The first thing you notice when you come to China🇨🇳 is:
- it doesn't have many birds, no wild animals.
Cuz all were eaten? They would eat all the pandas if not for communist law
@@alisherri77Precisely!
They have Bears ! They keep them in small Cage and attach a hose with a valve to the Gall bladder and keep them that way for years 😮
@@mrkus-nc7od Really? I've heard the Chinese love bear gall blader.
@@AhmetTekin101 yes ! Don't you understand? They put a hose in the Bear to drain his gallbladder for years .
Simple...educate yourselves...become proactive and be smart about things. We can share the forest. Besides...if you don't like the "bear situation" then leave...simple.
Black Bear at 1:10 is a champ!! Whoah!!
that is a grizzly. Hump, round face and body posture are dead giveaways. There can be huge variation in colour in both black bears and grizzlys
If u don't like bears, leave BC
You don’t understand wildlife management.
It's the stupid animals that can't adjust to their environment.🧟
Bears, on the other hand, are perfectly adapted! 🐻
You didn't understood anything @@denverwynn4
@@westsider7809 Well said. And good argument.
Wildlife in Canada have more wild areas to live than people by 100 times. And that is a fact. And there are a lot of animals that find an easier way of life amongst humans. Which does not work for either of us.
Perhaps you should put up a few signs to let the bears know that are other wild areas to live and have no need to go back to the wild areas they were hunted out of, even though it was their home to begin with. I'm sure the grizzly bears will understand.
You are not thier protector...they want to eat you....or move
The bears were there first, so were the Natives, 30 years ago Pemberton was pretty well wilderness, I’m with the bears on this one.
Lol culls happen. Better minds than ours justify it.
Two of the grizzly’s wandered all over QUESNEL this fall, no one hurt thank god but it could very well be.
When people move into the natural habitats of wild animals then they have to deal with the risks of doing so.
They will change their tune as the Grizzlies move south and follow the river valley into Harrison Lake and the Squamish river into Howe Sound into West Vancouver.
bears would live in downtown vancouver if they were allowed@@MrBuddy-r8w
so, every square inch of Canada then? @@MrBuddy-r8w
too many people, won't happen. @@jamesnelson9981
They need to re-open the provincial grizzly bear hunt!
So let me get this straight. The Canadian government wants to re-introduce grizzly bears where humans are, but also the Canadian government want to take away your guns. If you think Bear spray can save you from a pissed off mama bear, good luck with that. There’s good reason why California got rid of there grizzly bears.
@@chiy828
Still have hunting rifles and shotguns
Is there a season for ranchers?
@@tprokopetz
Why? Do you have some sort of issue w hard working ppl who produce high quality food for us?
yep. but you will never get the lower mainland yuppie crowd to understand this. they mostly live in la la land
Sounds like some stupid animals roamed into the area.
... And then,built some farms.
We need to learn how to
Protect this bears from
Humans 😢
Wrong, its the other way around. Spend some time in grizz Country then come back and have this conversation. Your ignorance to the situation will get you hurt or killed around these bears. There not to be messed with
Finally someone with some actual knowledge@@EXILE_OUTDOORS
They need to leave our animals alone and charging stupid people doing things that provoke them to be aggressive in the first place ie selfies and those types of things and no we don't need to under any circumstances need to allow hunting there aren't that many brown bears not even remotely
BC has a healthy population of both grizzlies and black bears. What actually needs to be done is ensure that the unglued population comes into balance because those predators have to eat. The horrendous wildfire season destroyed a lot of habitat for all wildlife, driving animals into populated areas. Human safety is a valid concern. The situation is a lot more complex than just telling people to leave the bears alone.
Cry me a river,let the bears be,protect your animals and take measures. We should becso lucky to actually have any bears the way humans keep pushing 😢
I don’t think is necessary to get ride of this grizzly bears because humans needs to respect their habitat and if they saw them they really need to step back and move to a different direction
Bears have been living in canada for millions of years. I am surprised the super woke BC people are asking for bear management.
Forest fires logging impacts hunting grounds then the human encroachment salmon runs affected by dams pollution etc etc
The Natives over fished it.
@@steveatlas3492 Colossal failure from the government in preventing it then.
Well this is what happens when they dont control population around communities.
Hopefully the bears control the human population!
Or, when we, as a species,do not control communities around the bear population.
Noise makers. Installed and carried around by residents will prevent surprising bears.
I've run into a lot of black bears but never a brown bear. I think I would be a lot less chill about it usually the black bears want nothin to do with you, unless your on or near their food. Or kids I guess. Never been in that predicament either lol.
Never seen a big cat either and that weirds me out cus I know that can't be. Means they saw me, and I had no idea.
Ugh ! Yes it’s know now too! Right?
A lot of actives make a lot of demands, but have no answer.
In the movie The Good Bad and Ugly...Tuco said..."If you're going to shoot SHOOT...don't talk"
We need to plant berries and things they eat in any wilderness so they don't have look for other sources. Otherwise leave them alone they where here first and we are so many.
This year all berries dried because of no rain in the forest, next year is better fruits i hope ....
So maybe we need management of farmers and ranchers who for decades have infringed on grizzly habitat!
I bet you wouldn't say that if a grizzly decided to move into your house. Maybe we should relocate problem grizzly bears to the cities, that seems to be where all of the opposition to a management plan is.
Yeah let’s stop eating so the bears can roam freely. 🙄
@@JimSimonelli I would sooner have a grizzly bear than an ignorant rancher who thinks his cows are more important.
@@The67wheelman I would sooner have a grizzly bear than an ignorant rancher who thinks his cows are more important.
what an idiotic statement from someone that clearly has no idea where his food comes from.....
Don't we have the technology to track grizzly bears and their locations in real-time?
Technology, maybe? Money, no.
To the people saying 'dont build where wildlife lives if uou dont want to deal with bears.' remember that cities used to be farmland and forests too 😂😂😂
Man when i was in whistler they started coming back there too
People talk about humans moving into animal lands like we are aliens and dont belong here too 🙄
Some of you do NOT belong outside of a city. Citiots area huge problem in the "wilderness", as they lack the sense that is needed to understand the wild, and the wildlife. Most animal/people incidents happen due to ignorance, and lack of education about these animals... bears, moose, elk, bison... these are the largest creatures we have on land in Canada. They are also the most dangerous next to man,especially when those humans want to get that close up, the all desired selfish, of them close to one of these magnificent beasts. I firmly believe that you should have to pass an animal safety and awareness exam prior to being allowed into the national parks.. but that is just me.
@@wildwolfzonerwolfe6966 it's not offensive, just incorrect. Things are native to where ever you find them. Some animals migrate all over the planet and never settle. Other migrate all over the planet and do settle. When they settle and cause more damage than they do benefit, we call them invasive. Humans are a global creature because we have adapted to live in pretty much every zone.
But I do agree that people should do the best we can to deter dangerous wild life, as you said.
Grizzly bears usually are smart enough to be scared of and stay away from the most dangerous species on the planet, and for good reason.
Not anymore now that they aren’t hunted. They don’t care anymore
but the beautiful thing is, ALL the wildlife is revolting. look at the headlines, not a week goes by with out someone being chased attacked or whatever it is the whales fo when they shoulder check boats. it's awesome.
Lmao@@Grizly_Atoms
S ... S ... S ...!
Time for Bear Burgers :)
The sooner you pave BC, the sooner there will be no bears
Leave the bears alone!
Canada was on fire nearly all last summer & the few previous summers before that. It takes years for the forests & wildlife to return to those areas. It's no wonder bears & other wildlife are moving to other areas of the country. They don't really have a choice.
BC needs to manage their forests. Look at the pollution caused by those fires. The province never paid any carbon tax on that pollution. They should be sued. Good forest management including massive programs of underbrushing are required.
@@peterdadson7713 Alberta manages their forests & they were on fire for all summer & much of spring. My town alone was on evacuation notice for nearly a month. The smoke alone caused my dog to pass away. It was just too hard on her.
Less people in the grizzly environment
Grizzlies haven't been hunted in Banff or jasper for decades. Man up and leave alone
I mean I understand that we build near them but what choice we have ? The humans are growing and need more space so this is hard because bears attack so humans have no choice but to kill 😢
So close to having a bear tax
No one may have been hurt in BC but a couple was killed in Alberta
I live in a region with no bears or wolves, no forest to burn, no ocean to produce hurricanes and no desert for mobsters to bury bodies in. It's a 15 minute drive to go fishing, camping or hiking and the only creatures digging through our garbage are house cats or racoons. 🤣
Waahaa jus leave them
Alone :( already :(
Grizzly management? How about move out of their home 🤷🏻♀️
This is not news, 99.99% of Canadians couldn't care less...
I have an idea, send Trudeau in to impose a tax on the bears, I say at least give it a chance and send him in to negotiate with a jar of honey!
BC banned Grizzly bear hunting , now this and elk population going down. Love the way the bleeding hearts run things.
100% not a single incident but a misunderstanding of grizzly bears. Boldly accessing farmland? Give me a break. Electric fences around your attractants and you're good to go ❤
Maybe some people should stop building houses on their land
Where do you live that at one point wasn't grizzly habitat ?
Government is stupid in this. Give out tags, cull the numbers, let people hunt. I remember the wolf situation in the 80s eating all the caribou.... that was a good year for wolf pelts.
Demand? I find the ignorance displayed here was very predictable because of the ignorance displayed 20 yrs ago in regards to management
Just let them be.. You are on there land Remember that...
James Gary Shelton. Read his books......
No I don't condone this. It's only a couple of bc residents.
They moved the bear over the mountain and it came back. I guess they never heard the song. Those bears make a nice rug.
only for a few years then the hair starts falling off. male a jacket and snow pants. doubles as hunting camo and is great ski suit
@@Grizly_Atoms I’ve only seen a grizzly fur coat once. It was beautiful and would have been good down to -50. Seems that the bears are making a comeback and we can expect more people getting turned into bear food.
And the meek Grizzly Bears will inherit B.C.
A lot of lame comments about staying outside of the bear's territory. Do you think you just happen to live in a region where bears, wolves and wildcats never lived? Or maybe, just maybe, once upon a time when people had guts, they ran them out of the area to establish towns and cities. Hypocrites.
Why dont the peopke relocate, you moved ti their home...
You need both Kanin packs and bears to balance each other in the wild, all ecosystems world wide have animal roles in them. Where are the wolves brown bears black bear and mountain lions to compete and space each other out? Why are you doing nothing to attract dear and help them flourish by planting things? Every solution is killing and burning, and gardening is just a silly past time apparently. These idiots will never learn. Things eat things, balance it out or nature will. People driving skunks out of their yards cause they have dogs, the skunks are there to spray bears and coyotes. One think I love about skunks, they space out raccoons and possums and large predators without fighting clawing biting no infected wounds to spread disease just spacing out to go for food opportunities in a more spread out pattern. Tourists want the trees without the compost their trees are weak diseased and can't survive their own climate. People drive away pooping birds and critters digging holes then their property fills with thistles(holes were digging up thistle roots) and the worms and ants will eat too much dead wood on trees leaving none to protect the living wood. Bugs are bird food, every moth and caterpillar there is is bird food, many farmers still at war with birds and spending millions to be broke. People don't understand that everything is connected and has a role. Everything is food for something, take things away it all gets imbalanced and going on culling's for money is wasteful. BC is destroying its moth infested trees before the birds can get a go on it, which will only make the problem last and the forests die out. In my town bird population is stable unlike some parts of the province of Ontario, here you will see a tiny twig with tent caterpillars on it in nut and fruit trees and it never gets out of control no one notices it, because its constantly eaten by cardinals and dragon flies that get quite big here. Stop with the chemicals and culling's, grow forage hunt raise. I pray everyday that farmers plant hedgerows with the way the world is going cause if the farmers starve we all starve. Hedgerows will give them food firewood timber mushrooms trapping things to sell or even just supplying their own needs without changing the years invested production methods they have going on. They don't make enough money to live as a business model they have to become farmers again. tractors and chemicals is not farming. It does not understand the fundamental connections of soil life and us. This way they can still plant monocrop corn and soy or grazing cattle and still get lots of resources for themselves to survive economically an biologically. Famers are used to using kitchens as car repair shops and buying food from walmart, I sure hope there is a cultural shift happening with them. They are as vulnerable as most city dwellers and that is scary. These environmental groups need to stop harassing farmers and raise money for clearing their debts planting hedgerows and putting in ponds costs diggers and time farmers might not have but maybe always wanted to do. Some farmers only want money and political promises, those ones will monocrop and use chemicals into bankruptcy. Farmers in the world have survived collapses and live well, because they grow forage hunt and gather they don't strip the land for a cash crop leaving them nothing but what they can get from the banks to buy back from, water that is gone from the well money can't buy. Banks offer buyouts either way its sick. I pray for the farmers, that they are kept safe from the government.
How about learn to live with the grizzly bears.
Educate the people on safety, learn to live with them...
sounds like we need to manage farmers and ranchers is what we need to do. Stop encroaching on their territory and then complaining that they're there.
Bears should be free to be bears and live where bears need to live. People need to back of and stop invading animals territory.
Ever hear of bearspray?
Maybe yous should move closer to the city, and leave the bears alone
Will you pay for moving?
Heck loads of humans
"Boldly accessing farmland"??? Boldly accessing what was once, and will ALWAYS be their domain! The animals were here LONG before man. Before long there will be baiting by the farmers/ranchers, creating their own headaches/nightmares, and painting the bears as the "bad guys".
Ok. I guess we should abandon Vancouver, Victoria, all the other "domains" we have so egregiously taken from the bears and whatever other crowd it is politically agreeable to mention.... what a moronic statement.
So very true
Typical people. Invade wildlife space and complain when " animals travel in spaces they never have before " listen to yourself. Humans have moved into every area that is normal living space for these animals. Who the hell are we to complain and what makes us so entitled. Get a life. If you can't handle wildlife move to the damn city. Leave the animals alone.
That was some bigoted nonsense. Hunting is hunting. Let people harvest the bears.
The word harvest is such a chickenshit way of saying kill!
@@erniebru959not at all. Harvest means you are using the animal after you kill it. Same as harvesting a cow so you can eat your hamburger or harvesting a plant (also alive) so you can eat your soy burger
@@pennyontrack so with that logic, people dying in Ukraine and other wars are really being harvested,whatever eases your conscience. Have a nice day.
@@erniebru959 that’s not at all what my post was saying. Nice try though.
@@pennyontrack Back at ya.
The only human fatalities by grizzly I have ever heard of was the couple in Banff this fall.
multiple people get mauled yearly. just in BC
and since it's the only you've heard of, it's never happened in history, anywhere on earth, other than the couple in Banff you can be confident in that.
Alimales noo sibre
Wild fires drove the wild species to the lab monkeys. Everybody's gotta eat.
To call grizzly bears deadly is total garbage. We atr the deadly element in tjid equation
Relocate the people f/f,sakes
HEY, Nathan Cullen what are you doing there when no one form here can find you. How about helping your own area! I won't vote NDP again, until your gone.
What does Nathan Cullen have to do with this ? I believe that the grizzly moratorium came in before he was a MLA
In this era where we all need to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Native Peoples, perhaps we should also acknowledge that WE are living on the bear's land, not the other way around.
Good thing they took everyone’s guns.
Scary isn’t it ! 😳
@@johnemorrison-kj3ox ima use a 22 like that ministers aid says
It's their home! LEAVE THEM ALONE! Let the human's relocate!
That's what happens when you stop hunting.
Title should say "traditional hunting ground s of the grizzly have been stolen by humans"
They were here first we need to find a way to co exist
Exactly
Thats what happens when you build your house on thier land.
So where you live wasn't grizzly habitat at one point ? Maybe they should relocate them to your house. And have you put any thought into the fact that many indigenous communities have been in grizzly territory for thousands of years, and now it is becoming an issue. Maybe you should tell them to move.
Really!!!! This is a human problem, and we're making the BEARS pay for it!!!
When will WE ever learn!!!!!!! Like most times in human experience, NEVER.
Let's stop encroaching on bear territory. Save them now before they're a memory in storybooks. Sadness .
Probably lotsa honey & garbage from all the van dwelling hipster wannabe insta famous!
This is not our planet.
Then maybe you should leave.
@@JimSimonelli You must be a right wing American
Maybe they should remove the humans
Call the waaambulance!
The only reason this is even news is because the bears are irritating farmers, most people just want to leave the bears alone. If you can't handle the bears get out of their backyard!
Maybe they need to move out of bear country.