{"id":430268,"date":"2026-01-24T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430268\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:00:18","slug":"fewer-black-bears-killed-in-b-c-last-year-than-in-last-decade-conservation-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430268\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer black bears killed in B.C. last year than in last decade: conservation officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted January 23, 2026 7:18 am\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>New figures suggest fewer black bears in British Columbia were killed in 2025 than in previous years in the last decade.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Conservation Officer Service says officers dispatched 178 black bears and euthanized 33 last year \u2014 the lowest in the 15 years that predator statistics have been published online and a 65 per cent drop from 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDispatch\u201d refers to a bear being killed for public safety reasons, such as a human-wildlife conflict, while \u201ceuthanize\u201d refers to a bear being killed for welfare reasons, such as critical injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>The West Coast saw the most bears killed for public safety reasons, coming in at 47, while the Okanagan reported the most euthanizations with eight.<\/p>\n<p>Garth Mowat, a large carnivore specialist with the province, says a large berry crop across the B.C. Interior last year may have led to fewer bears in communities, as abundant food sources often lead to fewer conflicts between bears and people.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Cam Schley with the Conservation Officer Service says many conflicts between humans and bears are preventable.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11620877\/carney-davos-wef-speech-transcript\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769259616_44_CP175653730-e1768927793200.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRead the full transcript of Carney\u2019s speech to World Economic Forum\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11634409\/autopsy-bc-canadian-dead-australia-beach\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769259617_13_Screenshot-2026-01-23-062047.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tB.C. teen found dead on Australian beach drowned, not killed by dingoes: autopsy\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers continue to work collaboratively with and engage communities, organizations and businesses on public education and outreach to help keep people safe, and wildlife wild,\u201d said Schley.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Black bear killed in Whistler leaves behind three cubs'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6P_WHISTLER_KILLED_BEAR_CONCERNS.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:19<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBlack bear killed in Whistler leaves behind three cubs\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 23, 2026 7:18 am 1 min read Descrease article font size&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[5486,49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-430268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-black-bears","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430268","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=430268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}