Shame On We Humans. Because Of Our Lack Of  Care For Other Species, Another Bear Is There For the Killing

A Brief Commentary by Doug Draper

Posted September 5^th, 2025 on Niagara At Large

A Black bear wanders over in the direction of people lounging in a nature park in British Columbia.

If any of you watched CBC’s news program The National  this past September 3^{rd (}or even if you didn’t) there was a short segment at the end of the program showing a black bear wandering into Burnaby Mountain Park in British Columbia looking for food in a place where people were lounging around.

At least one couple is seen, continuing to lay there reading a book or something, as the bear ambled closer and closer in a manner that gave no reason for anyone viewing the video to believe that  he was going to attack, which the bear didn’t.

But that didn’t  matter.

The commentator on The National news program said that because that particular bear, seen in the park before, has become so use to coming near humans, “the plan is to put him down.”

We humans – generally speaking – show little or no sensitivity to the fact that we have continued to encroach on lands inhabited by bears and other wildlife – habitat that is also being burned down by wildfires that are  getting worse every year due to climate change.

Then, when those animals move in closer to us in a desperate hunt for food, what is our first instinct? Why to kill them, of course.

After all, in The Bible, on the sixth day after God created the Earth, so the story in The Book of Genesis goes, He created man and woman, then blessed them as He said to them; “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

I say God help this Earth and every other  creature living on it.

To watch the video CBC’s The National aired of the black bear approaching people and their picnic food in the park, click on the screen immediately below  –

An Arctic wolf named Boo came to a tragic end here in Niagara

This story about the bear reminds me of one involving a magnificent Arctic wolf named Boo, that escaped from an enclosure where he was being held in the Niagara, Ontario municipality of Port Colborne, then was shot by police after wandering near a farm. To read a news commentary on the shooting of Boo, posted on Niagara At Large, click on – https://niagaraatlarge.com/2023/01/06/the-tragic-shooting-in-niagara-of-a-white-wolf-named-boo/

A Brief Footnote – According to recent reports in the mainstream media, another Beluga whale – the 19th since 2019 – has died in captivity at the Marineland amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario. When is the federal government finally going to step in and put an end to this?

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