{"id":374794,"date":"2025-12-29T08:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374794\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T08:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:51:13","slug":"bear-cub-that-suffered-major-burns-in-northern-b-c-expected-to-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374794\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear cub that suffered major burns in northern B.C. expected to recover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bear cub recovering<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press &#8211; Dec 27, 2025 \/ 6:11 am | Story: 591299<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"A sign warning of a bear in the area is shown in Squamish, B.C., Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Amy Smart\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/feb1c2b23ddb2ee994aa0aa4d9331b755d504655d01d8edceadb851b28cf9e76.jpg\" style=\"height:466px; width:640px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>A sign warning of a bear in the area is shown in Squamish, B.C., Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Amy Smart<\/p>\n<p>A bear cub rescued in northeastern British Columbia last week is expected to live.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Lights Wildlife Society was called about a cub in &#8220;dire need,&#8221; in an area close to Dawson Creek.<\/p>\n<p>A volunteer rushed to the site from the society&#8217;s headquarters in Smithers, B.C., an eight-hour drive, and found the bear at the base of a tree, covered in snow.<\/p>\n<p>Society co-founder Angelika Langen says in a video posted on social media that the female cub is &#8220;doing well&#8221; and that her survival is a &#8220;Christmas miracle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Langen says the bear may have been burned while hibernating, noting her fur, face and feet were scorched.<\/p>\n<p>She says the bear is expected to survive and thanks social media followers for sending good vibes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re forever grateful that she was found and we&#8217;re given the opportunity to give her a second chance,&#8221; Langen said in the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bear cub recovering The Canadian Press &#8211; Dec 27, 2025 \/ 6:11 am | Story: 591299 Photo: The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-374794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374794","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=374794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}