{"id":913499,"date":"2026-09-29T01:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913499\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T01:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:44:19","slug":"ngo-recruiting-four-legged-specialist-to-help-deal-with-bear-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913499\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO recruiting four-legged \u2018specialist\u2019 to help deal with bear incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAPPORO \u2013 As concerns grow over the presence of bears in urban areas, a Sapporo-based environmental NGO plans to acquire a Karelian bear dog early next year to help city officials respond to bear-related incidents.<\/p>\n<p>The dog, which will be brought in from a U.S.-based organization next February, will be dispatched when the EnVision Environmental Conservation Office receives a request from city hall to investigate a reported bear sighting.<\/p>\n<p>The dog, a young male named Kai, will be trained by the nongovernmental organization\u2019s Koichi Waseda for about a year before being dispatched to sites where bears or signs of their presence have been spotted or reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAPPORO \u2013 As concerns grow over the presence of bears in urban areas, a Sapporo-based environmental NGO plans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2837,1442,49,48,9300,25502,4690,116394,66,178,323],"class_list":["post-913499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-bears","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dogs","tag-hokkaido","tag-hunting","tag-sapporo","tag-science","tag-u-s","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913499","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=913499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}