{"id":208782,"date":"2025-10-13T02:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208782\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T02:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:11:11","slug":"mama-bear-put-down-after-being-hand-fed-by-lower-mainland-resident-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208782\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama bear put down after being hand-fed by Lower Mainland resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The BC Conservation Service is investigating a resident in Chilliwack for hand-feeding a sow and its two cubs in a residential neighbourhood. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAs a direct result from this individual feeding the family unit of bears, the sow had to be destroyed, and the two cubs were taken to a rehabilitation centre so they can be relocated next spring,\u201d stated a social media post from the service. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The post added that the investigation is ongoing and conservation officers were made aware of the situation by receiving information from the public. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The service also included a reminder in its post that feeding dangerous wildlife puts the overall public at risk. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFeeding dangerous wildlife, such as bears, creates a serious public safety risk,\u201d added the service.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWildlife fed by humans lose their sense of fear and associate people as a source to get food, as opposed to foraging for their natural nutrients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BC Conservation Service is investigating a resident in Chilliwack for hand-feeding a sow and its two cubs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,2081,1337,44,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-208782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-kelowna","11":"tag-local","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}