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Conservation officers are again going door-to-door in a Port Coquitlam neighbourhood after six bears were destroyed in the area last week because they were habituated to human trash. Murray Smith, inspector of the south coast region for the BC Conservation Officer Service, said officers had been watching two bear families around Fox Park, located east of Westwood Street. Officers had received repeated calls from residents about the bears for weeks, Smith said, but had hoped the colder weather
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would have forced the six animals in their dens to hibernate for the winter. But because they didn’t retreat, officers believed they either didn’t have enough fat reserves to go into their dens or they had “so many food sources that they didn’t want to hibernate,” Smith said. “If they have accessible food sources, then they will stay out in the cold.” Last Friday around noon — after strategizing since Tuesday, the same day conservation officers spoke with PoCo’s committee of council about how the city can discourage human-bear conflicts — conservation officers swooped down on Fox Park, where a sow and its first-year cub “showed no indication to leave and no fear of the people in the park,” Smith said. “We had reports of them breaking into buildings.” see
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