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VIDEO: Getting up close and personal with cougars
KAMLOOPS – Bet you've never seen a cougar this close before. WildSafe B.C. has released…
WILD WEDNESDAY: A B.C. Interior grassland ‘video hike’
Every week, WildSafe B.C. posts a new video to its Facebook page to highlight a…
People not getting the message: Don’t trash Kamloops grasslands
KAMLOOPS – A local wildlife expert is sounding off over trash and vandalism in a…
Wildsafe B.C. video shows injured wolf walking through the snow
KAMLOOPS – A new video by Wildsafe B.C. offers us a sad glimpse at an…
Foxes at Sun Peaks show no fear; likely products of food conditioning
SUN PEAKS – It's an incredible sight that some people at Sun Peaks Resort have…
Wildfires mean short term pain but long term gain for B.C. wildlife
KAMLOOPS – It may seem like wildfires would not be good for impacted wildlife, but…
That tag on your garbage can might mean you’ve broken a bylaw
KAMLOOPS – WildSafe BC is going to be out tagging garbage bins around the city…
Pilot project brings bear resistant garbage bin locks to Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – A pilot project in Kamloops aims to find out if there’s a way…
Bears beat anti-bear bin at B.C. Wildlife Park
KAMLOOPS – In the battle between bears and garbage bins, bears have racked up another…
Hungry bears up and about looking for food in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – Hibrenating black bears are waking up and they have one thing on their…
Rattlesnakes out early this spring in Southern Interior
KAMLOOPS – Rattlesnakes are out a early in the Thompson-Okanagan this year thanks to the…
Penticton resident reports cougar with house cat in its jaws
PENTICTON - A pet owner in the upper Penticton Avenue area may be missing their cat following a pair of cougar sightings in the area earlier this week. Two sightings were reported to Penticton conservation officers on Monday, Dec.14. Conservation officer Dave Cox says the sightings were reported to the conservation office around 8 p.m....
Increasing conflicts convince West Kelowna to get bear help
WEST KELOWNA - Increasing bear conflicts on the fringes of West Kelowna has convinced the city to sign on with WildSafe B.C. to provide a seasonal bear awareness worker. The city will pay as much as $8,350 next year - depending if other partners sign on - for a medium level service contract with the...
It’s probably not a cougar: Kamloops Conservation
KAMLOOPS – There have been four unconfirmed sightings of cougars in Kamloops within just as many days, but Conservation officer Kevin Van Damme wants to stress these sightings are just that — unconfirmed. “Five to seven times out of ten, sightings turn out to be something other than a cougar,” he says, adding of the...
Conflicts between humans and bears expected to increase in the Okanagan
WEST KELOWNA – A busy weekend for bear sightings in West Kelowna could signal the start of a fall rife with bear-human conflicts. Frank Ritcey, the creator of the interactive Wildlife Alert Reporting Program on WildsafeBC.com, says four sightings of black bears were reported in the Shannon Lake neighbourhood in West Kelowna since Friday. “This...