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All Grizzly Bears Articles
The province's recently released grizzly bear numbers don't tell the full story of what's needed to help Alberta's grizzly populations, Alberta conservationists say.
Jim Pissot, the executive director of Wild Canada Conservation Alliance, and Nigel Douglas, Alberta Wilderness Association conservation specialist, both see the report as a call to the government to limit motorized access to grizzly habitat.
A large amount of grain was spilled Friday by a CPR train around 500 metres east of the Banff train station, worrying conservationists about the safety of wildlife.
"The pile has already attracted wildlife to the site," said WildCanada Conservation Alliance's Jim Pissot.
Considering the grizzly bear status report that was released by the Alberta government on March 3, people should do everything they can to keep grizzly bears alive, Pissot said. The report estimates that only 359 mature breeding grizzly bears are found on provincial lands and within Waterton Lakes national park and portions of Banff and Jasper National Park.
An updated grizzly bear status report released today by the Alberta government confirms shockingly low numbers of mature breeding grizzly bears in Alberta and highlights the urgency of reducing the number of grizzly deaths in the province. Conservationists now assert that there is no longer any reason to delay necessary recovery actions, including listing the grizzly as Threatened under the Alberta Wildlife Act, limiting the densities of roads and reducing the amount of motorized access in prime grizzly habitat, and implementing effective public education and conflict prevention programs.
A status report on Alberta’s grizzly bear population and habitat, prepared by an independent scientist, is now available online.
The status report establishes a new baseline of information using the advanced technique of DNA surveys and other data.
The report estimates 691 grizzly bears ranging in density from five to 18 bears per 1000 square kilometres. Some local populations with significant habitat alteration may be declining, other populations appear stable
Polar bears and grizzly bears, two mighty beasts of the Canadian wilderness, could soon be battling over territory. Hungry grizzly bears are increasingly encroaching on their northern counterparts' territory in Northern Manitoba, according to experts.
Provincial parks, the Rocky Mountain corridor and a major highway in British Columbia are the main areas where grizzly bears are being killed by sports hunters, according to a new statistical analysis by the David Suzuki Foundation. Using provincial government records the environmental organization plotted on a map the locations where 11,000 grizzly bears have been killed in B.C. over the past 30 years. "It paints a distressing picture," says Dr. Faisal Moola, director of terrestrial conservation for the David Suzuki Foundation.
ellowstone National Park authorities said today that bears are beginning to wake up from winter hibernation and are emerging from their dens. Grizzly bear tracks were spotted in the Blacktail Deer Plateau area east of Mammoth Hot Springs on Feb. 19.
How much stress does crossing a busy logging road cause a grizzly bear? What happens when a bear has to share its backyard with oil rigs, mountain bikers and Sunday golfers? Environmental scientists can answer these questions as never before. Stepping away from his role as Trent University president, Steven Franklin dove into his passion for nature Monday, highlighting the technological advancements that are allowing researchers to predict ecological dangers before they happen.
Bears are now being celebrated at the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver. There are pictures of grizzlies and black bears on posters and murals all over town, even a huge white Spirit bear was featured in the opening ceremony. Bears are imbedded in Canadian culture and society; they symbolize our natural world that we are so blessed with, yet come this spring British Columbia is set to make another dubious milestone in its checkered history of bear management.
Biologists affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History and City College of the City University of New York have found that grizzly bears are roaming into what was traditionally thought of as polar bear habitat -- and into the Canadian province of Manitoba, where they are officially listed as extirpated. The preliminary data was recently published in Canadian Field Naturalist and shows that sightings of Ursus arctos horribilis in Canada's Wapusk National Park are recent and appear to be increasing in frequency.
These two bears clearly woke up in a grizzly mood as they trade blows during a heavyweight bout. A rare blond grizzly bear had challenged his brown adversary to a play fight on an icy tidal flat. The two hulking bears, which stand 8ft tall on their hind legs, take a firm grip before wrestling each other to the floor. Check out this amazing photo story!
A new Parks Canada report has shown that over the past two decades nearly 23 black bears have been killed annually in the Rocky Mountain national parks.
The report indicates all of the mountain national parks, including Glacier, Revelstoke and Waterton Lakes, saw a total of 477 black bear mortalities between 1990-2009.
With black bears and grizzly bears roaming around northwestern Montana’s backcountry, interaction with humans will occur from time to time. In an effort to help protect the bears from getting themselves into trouble while increasing safety for campers, Kootenai National Forest this summer plans to install up to 100 bear-proof food storage boxes.Mary Laws, recreation program manager, said such types of food-storage boxes have become common in places like Glacier National Park and Canada.
A new competition is encouraging the designers of wildlife overpasses to think outside the box and create wildlife structures for the next generation.
The first ARC: North American Wildlife Crossing Structure Design Competition, which was announced late last year, is being used to encourage new ideas, materials, methods and thinking.
Dr. Tony Clevenger, a senior wildlife research scientist at the Western Transportation Institute at the Montana State University in Bozeman, said the question is whether overpasses can be built cheaper using recycled and new materials coming onto the market, including plastics and concrete.
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B.C.'s policy frameworks fail to take ethical issues into consideration
A new decade has dawned and in a few months yet another year of grizzly bear hunting will commence in British Columbia.
The B.C. grizzly bear hunt has been a source of unrelenting controversy. Both sides are stuck in a continual expert-driven argument in which both camps claim science supports their positions.
In spring of 2006, a female grizzly began regularly herding her three cubs onto the roadside near Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park.
While the park had seen grizzlies before, bear 399 marked the first time a grizzly became such a prominent roadside fixture for park visitors. Bear jams formed when the family appeared, and park rangers conducted crowd control to make sure the masses kept a respectful distance as the sow and her cubs foraged for plants along the roadside or broke through the ice on Oxbow Bend to harvest stranded fish.
The confederation of state, federal and international agencies wrapped up its semiannual meeting in Missoula on Wednesday. In addition to setting out goals and priorities for bear management and policymaking, the members got updates on the grizzly's scientific and legal developments.
Two men who killed a grizzly bear in Pend Oreille County are prohibited from hunting for two years and will be on probation for five years, a federal judge ruled this week.
Wildlife officials from the United States and Canada want to gauge how climate change is affecting grizzly bears and hope to encourage conservation groups to purchase key parcels of bear habitat.
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