{"id":885362,"date":"2026-09-06T09:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/885362\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:18:15","slug":"conservation-officers-warn-of-bear-safety-as-hibernation-prep-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/885362\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation officers warn of bear safety as hibernation prep begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B.C. Conservation Officer Service (COS) are warning the public that bears are becoming more active as fall approaches and they prepare for hibernation.<\/p>\n<p>Bears need to find food and store fat before retreating for the winter season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Due to drought, wildfires and poor berry crops in various areas of the province, natural food sources have been greatly reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Bears may end up travelling further than usual and looking in new places for food.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>COS warns the public that this means giving bears even less reasons to wander into communities.<\/p>\n<p>Bears can become food-conditioned to garbage, pet food, birdseed and other attractants that are not properly secured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Vancouver as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=vancouver.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788686295_490_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"B.C. Conservation Officer Service (COS) are warning the public that bears are becoming more active as fall approaches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-885362","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\/885362","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=885362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}