{"id":120440,"date":"2017-09-30T06:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T10:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=120440"},"modified":"2017-09-30T06:39:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T10:39:44","slug":"wildlife-officers-capture-grizzly-bear-in-calgary-will-be-relocated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/30\/wildlife-officers-capture-grizzly-bear-in-calgary-will-be-relocated\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife officers capture grizzly bear in Calgary; will be relocated"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CALGARY — A grizzly bear that had residents in a southwest Calgary neighbourhood looking nervously over their shoulders for the past week has been captured by fish and wildlife officers.<\/p>\n

The bruin’s arrival led to the closure of Griffith Woods Park after the bear was spotted by a jogger and four other residents of the area.<\/p>\n

Alberta\u00a0Fish and Wildlife officers had placed two traps in the park and the animal entered one of them early Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are going to be assessing its health and then from there they will determine where the best place to take it would be … where it has the best chance of survival,\u201d said Brendan Cox, spokesman for\u00a0Alberta’s Fish and Wildlife Enforcement Branch.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody was hurt. Hopefully we can confirm the bear is in good health so it’s certainly our intent that it will be a positive outcome for this bear. The relocation ultimately is for its safety as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cox said the mature bear is being tagged and will be released Saturday in the Nordegg area.<\/p>\n

This latest bear-human encounter comes after another\u00a0Alberta\u00a0grizzly was shot by a hunter in B.C. after being relocated from the Canmore and Banff area to a remote park north of Jasper.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Alberta\u00a0government had moved the grizzly, known as Bear 148, in July after it had gotten too close to people too many times.<\/p>\n

Cox said the Calgary grizzly, which weighs 340 pounds, had been sticking mostly to natural vegetation but did get into some crabapples in one yard.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s used to humans and not necessarily scared of them but it’s not as food-conditioned as some other bears we’ve seen. We do want to give it a chance here and relocate it,\u201d Cox said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are considering it a success. This is what we felt would be best not only for the bear but for the people in the area as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grizzly bears are a threatened species in\u00a0Alberta\u00a0and it has been illegal to hunt them in the province since 2006. About 700 grizzlies remain in the province but they don’t usually show up in places like Calgary.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack bears, of course, are much more numerous in\u00a0Alberta\u00a0in general and we do tend to see more of them,\u201d Cox said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is definitely rare to see a grizzly make it this close to a big city like Calgary.\u201d<\/p>\n

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