A View Royal teen and her mother asked councillors to bring bear-proof garbage cans to their neighbourhood and ramp up bear protection bylaws after a mother black bear was shot by conservation officers last June.
A View Royal teenager said she was heartbroken when a mother black bear was shot by conservation officers last June in her neighbourhood, leaving three orphaned cubs.
And their efforts, along with those of neighbours, were rewarded as council agreed in a 4-2 vote to a small pilot project to supply the neighbourhood around Craigflower Creek and Thetis Lake Park with bear-proof garbage cans. It would be the first municipality in the Capital Region to supply the latched curb-side receptacles, following communities including Port Alberni and Port Hardy.
Conservation officers shot the mother black bear following reports over a month of the animal getting into food and garbage on park trails and climbing onto porches looking for food. The Conservation Officer Service said the bear had an ear tag indicating it had already been moved by conservation officers from a residential area in Langford in 2019.
The trio, named Rush, Midas and Leslie, joined four other orphaned black bear cubs at the facility last year.
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