B.C.'s Conservation Officer Service says it recorded a roughly 50 per cent drop in the number of black bears it killed in 2024 compared to the year prior.

This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a drizzly autumn morning on the coast of British Columbia, a shadowy figure lumbers down to shore. A black bear has ...

VICTORIA — There were 303 black bears killed by conservation officers in British Columbia last year, a low not seen since predator statistics ... The service says there were also 10,000 fewer calls to ...

The B.C. government is facing calls for mover oversight of conservation officers, amid a mounting number of black bears killed in recent years.

calls the Great Bear Rainforest "the planet's last large expanse of coastal temperate rain forest." Stretching for more than 250 miles along the coast of British Columbia, the 21-million-acre ...

An Alaskan gold miner has died in the second fatal mauling by a black bear in the state in as many days. Two contract employees of the Pogo Mine were attacked on Monday while collecting geological ...