{"id":697524,"date":"2026-05-27T17:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697524\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T17:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:04:20","slug":"dont-approach-or-tamper-with-bear-traps-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697524\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t approach or tamper with bear traps: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The traps have been set due to public safety concerns related to bears being in close proximity to people during daylight hours,&#8217; a news release said<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Natural Resources has set humane bear traps on public property in Sault Ste. Marie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The traps have been set due to public safety concerns related to bears being in close proximity to people during daylight hours,&#8221; police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These traps are being used to safely relocate bears that may pose a risk to people and to support the animals\u2019 welfare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Please do not approach, touch, or interfere with any traps. Tampering with traps can create safety risks for the public, responding officers, and the animals involved, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>If you see a bear, keep your distance and call the Ministry of Natural Resources Bear Wise reporting line at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sootoday.com\/city-police-beat\/tel:1-866-514-2327\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-866-514-2327<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an emergency, call 911.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;The traps have been set due to public safety concerns related to bears being in close proximity to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-697524","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\/697524","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=697524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}