The Editor,
Has the B.C. Ministry of Environment's Conservation Office gone completely mad?
I am absolutely beside myself with anger that they and the RCMP can be so callous in their treatment of these bears.
It's bad enough already that conservation officers arbitrarily kill these animals in more public areas where there is no justification because they can't determine whether they are aggressive or not - and now they're disposing of them near a park?
Why don't they just go into the park and eliminate them there? That way you wouldn't have to deal with them later.
This is not conservation as title dictates - it's wildlife elimination that best describes what they are paid to do.
If bears aren't even safe outside a park, where they showed only aggressiveness towards themselves, then no wild animal is safe. Conservation Officers and the Ministry of Environment need to wake up and quit worrying about the public so much and do what it takes to save the wildlife instead of trying to demolish it.
If conservation officials can't do this then they should quit their job and go work at a place that doesn't require any thinking.
Tim Fisher
Port Coquitlam
