{"id":587590,"date":"2026-04-07T07:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/587590\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:56:12","slug":"two-orphaned-island-bear-cubs-rescued-after-mom-found-dead-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/587590\/","title":{"rendered":"Two orphaned Island bear cubs rescued after mom found dead | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775548572_703_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre, a not-for-profit organization that cares for the well-being of wildlife on Vancouver Island, B.C., says it has admitted two young orphaned black bear cubs. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Handout-North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre (mandatory credit)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Two orphaned Island bear cubs rescued af<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tApr 6, 2026 | 11:45 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>ERRINGTON \u2014 A wildlife sanctuary near Parksville has taken in two young black bear cubs after their mother was found dead in their den.<\/p>\n<p>Errington-based North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre (NIWRC) stated in a Facebook post that the cubs were discovered by members of the public and they are the centre\u2019s first intakes of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The recovery centre believes the mother was killed in a predator attack.<\/p>\n<p>It says that it\u2019s always unfortunate when wildlife need its care, but they are \u201cgrateful these cubs were found and given a second chance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre, a not-for-profit organization that cares for the well-being of wildlife on Vancouver Island,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,66,82,323],"class_list":["post-587590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-science","tag-sports","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587590","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=587590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}