they were captivating nakota and her two little cubs a hopeful sign for the future of the threatened Grizzly population their deaths along with the male grizzly all struck on the same stretch of road within days of each other has hit a real nerve response has been a lot of frustration expressed by people and you can’t really blame them you know this is uh it’s supposed to be our Flagship National Park grizly bears are a threatened species so to lose you know one childbearing age female and then two Cubs and a male like that’s that’s a lot in one week Parks Canada said it had staff monitoring the Bears 247 and implemented a list of measures including reduced speed zones but despite its ramped up efforts it was unable to save them from traffic on the highway Advocates say it’s going to take an even bigger push to tackle a growing issue we can’t just continue to put 5 million visitors into B National Park um without a better visitor management plan uh that brings back the real Mandate of the park which is to protect ecological Integrity we think that there should be a summit to start to look at what other mitigation measures can be done and put some pressure on the federal government to start taking action here the bear Guardian team in Lake Louise and yo national park has been discontinued the funding reallocated Wildlife Crossings like this one here on the Trans Canada Highway that’s nearly complete have proven to be effective this week the province announced is going to build six more Crossings on Highway 1A between Canmore and Calgary and also Highway 3 in the Cress pass area hitting an animal has a high cost to society from insurance injury or death cleanup the loss of the value of the animal on the landscape usually these structures will pay for themselves over time because we do have a lot of animals being hit Parks Canada says it’s currently conducting a study looking at speed limit reductions to reduce animal strikes and hopefully prevent further tragedies down the road Jamie Daw Global News
It’s been a deadly start to the summer for grizzly bears in Alberta. Four were killed in just one week on the same stretch of highway in Yoho National Park.
This comes after a program designed to protect bears, the Bear Guardian program, was cancelled.
Parks Canada said it had staff monitoring the bears around the clock, and even implemented a list of measures including reduced speed zones. But despite ramped up efforts, they were unable to save the grizzlies from traffic on the highway.
Global’s Jayme Doll reports.
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