Shooting of bear that swam to tiny Canadian island frustrates First Nations | Canada
After swimming on a small -populated island, Tex’s journey, a young boz bear, which attracted the attention of the people in Canada, ended a violent end after the local groups were shot and killed without authorization.
On May 25, a small island on the west coast of Texada Island, the four -year -old Bear’s decision began a discussion between different comments on how to treat wild predators. His shots on Tuesday have advocates who want the British Columbia government to act faster in working with the first nations under environmental management.
Provincial officials have long insisted that Tex has been a danger to the residents. Although there was no order of killing the animal, they said that he had “followed” in the mainland before swimming to Texada and that he had moved once before. If the bear threatens public security, they announced that protection officers should respond.
Local First Nations offered communities to prepare for bear territory weeks ago. However, for a long time, Katrin Glenn, the Creator of Texada and “Tex” Facebook group, thought that some of the 1,200 inhabitants of the island should be euthanasia.
“I always said, Texada Island is not safe for him. And this is not because of the land, but nothing but people here,” he said.
“We knew there were people wandering with guns.”
The province’s protection officer Service said on Tuesday that he was investigating the death on the island of a Boz of Boz.
Bear behavioral experts, Tex discovery of independence by gaining a young male bear, he said. Glenn said he saw Tex around the farm circle at the end of May. “He had followed my fence line very respectfully,” he said. “It was a very gentle bear.”
In June, a few first nations community presented a strategy to re -place the month, and continued when a coordinated effort was killed between Shíshálh, Tla’amin and Homalco First Nations to move the bear to the Homalco region.
Tla’amin Nation said in a statement, “We were deeply upset about this result. Tex’s life was important and our nations had come together to find a peaceful solution,” he said.
A biologist Wayne McCrory wrote to the state last month emphasize support Mamalilikulla First Nation, for an offer to move the Tex, John Powell, the chief of the country, said that the month was killed on Wednesday and that the government was slow to listen to the indigenous communities. . CBC reported At the end of June, the three first countries were still waiting for government officials to support their lifting plans.
Im I knew that the writing was on the wall when there was resistance with the government, Pow Powell said.
Ranene Neill, Minister of Water, Land and Resource Management of the state, said on Tuesday that the authorities worked jointly with the first nations carrying Tex.
“Timing [of the bear’s death] Particularly unfortunate, Neill Neill said.
However, the Grizzly Bear Foundation President Nicholas Scapillati said that the tragedy of Tex’s death contained an important lesson for the state. “I hope his death was not in vain, and there is a mechanism that can really be learned from such a situation,” he said.
Powell said British Columbia’s legislation in 2019 to be compatible with the UN Declaration of Rights of the Native Peoples, and that the Tex incident was still a long way to meet with the first nations.
“I hope they examine this result objectively,” he said. “He was responsible for their incentives for killing this month.”
