Hikers watch bear steal backpack of food in Garibaldi Park (VIDEO)

Aug 27 2022, 7:39 pm

A TikToker caught a curious forest resident on camera raiding their bear cache like it was their own personal pantry.

TikTok user @ksr8282 shared a video on Thursday, August 25, of their bear encounter. The incident likely happened in the Taylor Meadows campground in Garibaldi Park, according to other TikTok videos posted to their account, and a bear in the same area was put down by conservation officers Friday.

“Incredible experience watching this guy work the camp for some food,” the TikTok poster wrote in the caption. “Despite the food being hung up high, he eventually figured out how to get a bag down. We decided hiking back down in the dark was the safest play here.”

@ksr8282

Incredible experience watching this guy work the camp for some food. Despite the food being hung up high he eventually figured out how to get a bag down. We decided hiking back down in the dark was the safest play hereā€¦ #fyp #bear #scary #hiking #viral

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The video is partly filmed from inside a shelter at the camp, the creator clarified in the comments. Daily Hive has reached out to the video poster and will update this story.

According to the Ministry of Environment, “Conservation Officers put down a black bear near the Taylor Meadows campground in Garibaldi Provincial Park on Friday morning that was displaying behaviour determined to be too much of a public safety risk.”

The bear had repeatedly been accessing food bags from caches, circled back to the campground many times, and showed almost no fear of people.

“In situations where food-conditioned bears becomes problematic and continue to revisit areas for food sources, BC Parks may take action by closing the area to provide the bear opportunity to move on,” said the Ministry, but “Bears that are conditioned to human food sources are not candidates for relocation or rehabilitation, due to the risk to public safety.”

“Putting down any bear is an unfortunate outcome that we work so hard to prevent,” said the Ministry.

BC Parks and the COS want campers and hikers to take precautions when in bear country.

In the Whistler area, there have been multiple bear alerts shared by the Resort Municipality of Whistler in the last month. Many bears have been destroyed after getting too close to humans and their property.

In August,Ā BC Conservation Service Officers received 3,524 reports about black bears, and 74 were killed by officers province-wide.

With files from Daily Hive Staff.

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