Want fewer bears put down? Manage your garbage, pick your fruit!
Here’s a timely reminder from Wild Wise Sooke Debbie Read. We’re coming into prime bear-attracted-to-human-spaces season.
“There may be more bear-human interactions to come, with the peak usually occurring in the third week of September,” writes Read in her Facebook post below.
“People have to be more proactive in deterring bears and the solution, is simple: If people can manage their garbage and fruit trees properly, we would have a lot less conflict.”
Read this earlier article published on SPN two years ago: Bear-proofing your yard for autumn in Sooke. Same stuff still generally applies. See also the additional information in the links below.
Related information
- Wild Wise Sooke: Local bears need absence of human interference to successfully hibernate
- Wild Wise Sooke: The latest bear hotspots in Sooke (Oct 9, 2019)
- Wild Wise Sooke: Bears out in Sooke, full force!
- Wild Wise Sooke issues dire warning: clean up your trash or see more bear conflicts
- Preparing for hibernation season in bear country
- Preparation for hibernation puts bears on a massive calorie intake search
- Want fewer bears put down? Manage your garbage, pick your fruit!
- Increased bear sightings, what you need to know, and how to keep bears alive
- Bear sightings at Potholes, between parking lots 3 and 2
- Black bear wants some water play in Sunriver
- A sure sign of spring for residents of Sooke is the return of bears.
- Bear in Area signs emerge from hibernation
- Wild Wise Sooke presents falling numbers in Sooke
- Bear conflicts are on the rise
- Wild Wise Sooke reminds SUNRIVER residents to store garbage indoors and manage attractions
- Reminder from Wild Wise Sooke: Bears are emerging from the hills
- Be bear-wise in Sooke: Bear-proof your yard
- First bear destroyed, Wild Wise Sooke urges education
- Be Bear Wise: Wild Wise Sooke suggests spring cleaning, minimize attractants
- More cougar cautions for Sooke Potholes hiking area
- Good to Know: How to deal with a surprise encounter with a black bear
- A Bear’s Bill of Rights, from Wild Wise Sooke
- The community of Sooke let this bear down, say Conservation Officers
- Another bear killed in Sooke
- What a Sooke bear in its natural habitat looks like
- LETTER: A fed bear is a dead bear, and DON’T blame the Conservation Officers!
- From SD62: Bear & Wildlife Safety Reminder – for you and your kids
- VIDEO: Globe and Mail video on Bears in Sooke
- Public Advisory from Wild Wise Sooke: Bears are being habituated in Sooke
- Bear sighting on Sooke Road, close to downtown
And your pool apparently had one take the cover off mine to go for a dip a few weeks ago. He never causes any harm though
Please, do all you can do, we took their home..
Maybe just stop killing them…if you let them be they will wonder on and find the fish and berries they want than go back to the forest for the winter season…its that simple.
I was reading an article the other night that cited a report that concluded that the black bear population has tripled since the early 1900s in BC and I got to wondering that maybe it’s a combination that we’re encroaching into their habitat, which is certainly true, but also that their population has outgrown said habitat. Sadly, the links to the studies the article cited were broken so I wasn’t able to look at them (being the responsible internet user that I am who attempts to fact check).
Blame anti-hunters. The same thing is going to happen with Grizzlies now, and those beasts kill people. Watch.
Agree, it helps to not have smelly garbage/compost out. However, I lived in Sooke for over 20 years before I even saw a bear here, nor did I see Deer in my yard regularly. Yet for the last few years bears have come through the yard in the spring and fall often. I’ve seen anger from people blaming residents for attractants, so in those 20+ years no-one ever left those out? It couldn’t have anything to do with development, logging and noise? I just wish the killing would stop.
There is no justification, that humans have as a species, to kill another species because we cannot control our need for more land and encroach upon another species habitat.