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Human Wildlife Conflict Manual
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In community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programmes, local communities are co-managers of wildlife and earn direct benefits from wildlife. In such programmes conflict between people and wildlife is a frequent and ongoing problem. The expansion of human settlements into wildlife areas means that human-wildlife conflict is growing in many parts of Africa. In order to be successful and sustainable, wildlife-based CBNRM programmes have to address this conflict. This manual edited by WWF is designed to guide local communities, wildlife managers, policy makers, and other people involved in community conservation, in ways to reduce human-wildlife conflict. It provides some background on the problem and gives specific examples of methods used to reduce human-wildlife conflict in Southern Africa. Download Human Wildlife Conflict Manual from WWF

By David Burke, Whistler Question, October 26, 2006

Animal trapped in Alpine is eighth bear put down in ’06

An adult male black bear that had been breaking into homes and vehicles was trapped and destroyed by conservation officers in Alpine Meadows last Friday (Oct. 20).

“Monty” became the eighth bear destroyed by officers in Whistler this year after it was caught in a live trap on Thursday night (Oct. 19).

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by Jennifer Miller, Feature Story Whistler Question, Oct.26, 2006

Bear habitat should take precedence over Olympic ‘legacy’ in Callaghan, environmental group says

With new evidence of grizzly bears living in the Callaghan Valley, environmental groups and cross country skiing enthusiasts are at odds over whether recreational “legacy” Nordic trails should be built at the Whistler Nordic Centre now under construction for the 2010 Olympics.

If the trails are not built, it will be the second Olympic legacy taken away from Whistler — the other being Council’s decision earlier this year not to proceed with plans for a Paralympic sledge-hockey arena.

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Your Vancouver Sun

Jan Lanz and her Irish setter cross were attacked by a bear outside their Port Moody home.

Randy Shore, Vancouver Sun
Published: Thursday, October 19, 2006

GREATER VANCOUVER - The number of complaints about conflict with bears foraging for food in residential neighbourhoods and attacking livestock in the Lower Mainland will top 3,000 this year, says the region’s senior conservation officer.

The number hit nearly 5,000 in 2004, said Rick Hahn. Complaints were as low as 1,144 as recently as 2003, he said, and the increase indicates a larger bear population. Attacks on livestock in particular are up this year, he said.

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By Doug Struck
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, October 14, 2006

TORONTO, Oct. 13 — The government and native groups agreed Friday to move forward to preserve an area almost four times the size of Yellowstone Park in far northern Canada, and said they would study making other areas off-limits to burgeoning diamond and uranium mining interests there.

The agreement begins the work to make a huge national park on the eastern edge of the Great Slave Lake, a frigid, pristine area of the Northwest Territories prowled by grizzlies and grazed by caribou.

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By Alison Taylor, Pique Newsmagazine, October 12, 2006

Olympic organizers are tight-lipped about the DNA evidence of grizzly bears living close to their proposed legacy trails in the Callaghan Valley.

In response to several questions and requests for interviews, the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic Games released an e-mailed statement last week from Linda Coady, vice president of sustainability.

“VANOC and a comprehensive group of stakeholders are entering into an environmental assessment process for which the end result may be the creation of legacy recreation trails,” she said.

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Your Province

Mad mama bear bites back

Woman mauled after her dog attacks two cubs in front yard
Conservation officer Jeff Palm yesterday baits a live-bear trap on April Road in Port Moody.

Conservation officer Jeff Palm yesterday baits a live-bear trap on April Road in Port Moody.

David Carrigg and Ethan Baron, with files from Ian Austin, The Province
Published: Monday, October 16, 2006

Conservation officers are hunting a black bear that mauled a woman who got between the bear and her cubs.

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Bears seek out garbage in WV neighbourhood

Erin McPhee

emcphee@nsnews.com

AN attempt to relocate a black bear family drawn into a West Vancouver neighbourhood by garbage recently resulted in one cub’s death.

The death of the bear cub might have been avoided, had people in the neighbourhood been more careful, said Tony Webb, spokesman for the North Shore Black Bear Network.

The mother bear and her two cubs had been monitored by the provincial Conservation Officer Service since mid-summer, said Jason Hawkes, a conservation officer. Eventually, the bear family headed south and crossed Highway 1, ending up in a West Vancouver neighbourhood.

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