Orphaned black bear cubs will have a new Vancouver home

by amyjudd | April 8, 2009 at 05:54 pm
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Orphaned black bear cubs will now have a new home to go in Vancouver as a black bear rehab centre will open in North Vancouver. The cubs will be raised until they can be released back in to the wild.

Environment Minister Barry Penner says the facility will give juvenile black bears a chance to develop their natural foraging and denning skills so they can survive on their own.

Fromme Mountain will be the new home of the cubs and will be an extension of the Critter Care Wildlife Society in Langely.
The rehab centre will be able to take 25 cubs at a time and will be off-limits to the public.
Sometimes black bear cubs have to be destroyed if they are orphaned and they wander into residential areas; about 700 bears are killed every year because of this.

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