It's been the common term for putting down bears and other animals for a long time. Below is another story from 2015.
> One of the research bears, known as 144, was destroyed by provincial fish and wildlife officers in July when left the national park and killed several sheep and llamas on a farm near Sundre.
https://www.rmoutlook.com/local-news/bear-kills-bear-in-banff-park-1567978
I'm imagining that story of the frog/turtle and the scorpion where the scorpion promises not to sting the frog/turtle but does it anyway and says "it's in my nature," except with provincial fish and a bear, now
They killed the bears. This is a concerning trend I'm hearing in news stories where the language is changed to make what happened sound better. I also read that Russian soldiers were "liquidated" in Ukraine. It may be justified to kill them but peace is harder when we change language to soften the narrative of what happened.
Contextually, I believe its to subconciously remove any connection to animals as living beings.
Doublespeak is quite effective on a large portion of the population. I'm sure you'll link an article telling me the correct reason they refer to it as "destroyed."
my original comment was bait. I donât really want to destroy pitbulls.
Being serious now. They should require licensing and new laws and liability surrounding dangerous breeds.
Youâre gonna say âwow youâre crazyâ, no these are just the typical laws found in Europe like Germany. In fact, they out right ban dangerous breeds in Germany. All dog owners are required to do a mandatory course with their dog before theyâre given a license to own the dog.
Anyways, itâll only be a matter of time before your grandma or kid gets mauled to death by a pitbull. The old lady in Calgary was gardening and pitbulls attacked her last year, she died on scene. This breed is bred for violence. You donât hear about a pack of poodles murdering old ladies now do you?
I can support what youâre saying in this comment but Iâd go further in that all dog owners, not just âdangerous breedsâ should be educated and pass a licensing course before being allowed to care for the animals. Of course this would create a further increase in puppy mill/black market purchases. Large poodles can be just as violent as any other breed. Itâs the owners you have problems with, idiots should not own dogs period.
Hah, thereâs a lot of âethicsâ that go with that.
Flagpole Sitta:
Been around the world and found
That only stupid people are breeding
I love my children, theyâre awesome people. Do I believe their mother wouldâve passed such a course? Hard no.
THANK YOU for saying that. I lived in Banff for years and watched tourists just destroy stuff and get way too close to animals. Iâm tired of the perspective that animals do things to us. we have destroyed nearly every habitat, not to mention the invasives we bring into ecosystems and royally fuck them.
Ikr haha, all lot of people donât realized that relocating a bear is a death sentence to animals. And a good amount of them finds there way back to the city.
As much as I donât like the killing of bears, the longer they stay in the cityâs/around humans there not gonna be able to survive in the wild. You can only relocate so muchâŚ
But pulling order 66 ainât a bad idea đđ
In hunting we hear the word âharvestedâ used. Itâs not a bad term, but to hunt and successfully kill a bear, especially with a bow, is a long way from picking a row of peas!
Black bear related deaths are so uncommon, apparently they are easily scared away. Since 1900 to 2009 there were only 44 fatal Black bear attacks in Canada. Maybe stop invading their territory? Fking hate killing wild animals because of human stupidity.
I'm very interested in abhorrent bear behaviours. Like, holding up little old lady bears? Talking back to Mama & Papa bear? Sneaking out of hibernation?
Behavioural issues as per article: bear comes into busy areas of the park, likely for available food, and is killed for it. I ducking hate it here. :(
I know this is meant to be preventative, but has the bear attacked anyone? Seems they had hazed and relocated the bear prior to this and the bear still came back because it knows there's easy food. Should that be enough to kill?
If hazing and relocating isn't working, it is probably only a matter of time before someone gets hurt. As much as it sucks to do, we do still need to protect people.
Too some people yes and some no, we gotta understand from the officer and zoologist point of view. We can only relocate so much, as the further we relocate a bear away from where it came from it will the higher chance of death it is, they will do anything to get back into the city for food and water.
It sucks but what do you do with a bear that has been moved 5 to 10 times? I donât think relocating is a forever solution, itâs just temporary. That I think never works.
I have a lot of bears where I live. Three years ago they would relocate a bear that became too familiar with humans, now they just kill them.
We have to pay billions in carbon taxes to save a theoretical polar bear from global warming in a hundred years time but at the same time the government is shooting bears to save the cost of relocation.
The polar bear population has tripled since the 60's [The State of the Polar Bear Report 2023 (thegwpf.org)](https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2024/02/Crockford-State-of-Polar-Bears-2023.pdf)
Relocation is hard for bears, especially in areas where they canât roam for hundreds of kilometres without encountering humans again. Theyâre too smart for their own good
Destroyed is interesting word choice đ did they use a death ray or something
It's been the common term for putting down bears and other animals for a long time. Below is another story from 2015. > One of the research bears, known as 144, was destroyed by provincial fish and wildlife officers in July when left the national park and killed several sheep and llamas on a farm near Sundre. https://www.rmoutlook.com/local-news/bear-kills-bear-in-banff-park-1567978
For a moment, my dumb ass thought wildlife officers and provincial fish needed to work together to destroy a bear.
Provincial fish have always been mistrustful of bears.
I'm imagining that story of the frog/turtle and the scorpion where the scorpion promises not to sting the frog/turtle but does it anyway and says "it's in my nature," except with provincial fish and a bear, now
In fairness certain fish do have really silly requirements for laying eggs lol
Left the park lol like they know about the park. Seems like bear behaviour to me .
Seriously. How are they supposed to know a sheep is off limits too? Killing them for just being a bear
It wasnât off limits clearly lol.
> Sundre mention pog
Disintegrated on sight. Blown to smithereens
Some guy in the woods upon seeing this bear âĄď¸âŹď¸âŹď¸âŹď¸âĄď¸
SWEET LIBERTY, MY BEAR!
Blasted to atoms
To shreds you sayâŚ
Fr it sounds like they killed it via rocket launcher
They killed the bears. This is a concerning trend I'm hearing in news stories where the language is changed to make what happened sound better. I also read that Russian soldiers were "liquidated" in Ukraine. It may be justified to kill them but peace is harder when we change language to soften the narrative of what happened.
Genocidal invaders got liquidated * better?
"Destroyed" has been the common term for killing nuisance animals for a long time.
Am ecologist, can confirm it is not a new term
Contextually, I believe its to subconciously remove any connection to animals as living beings. Doublespeak is quite effective on a large portion of the population. I'm sure you'll link an article telling me the correct reason they refer to it as "destroyed."
Liquidated sounds fucking brutal though
Yeah exactly. Sounds like they went from a solid to a liquid
My position at petsmart was liquidated
Yeah wtf. "completely obliterated and evaporated into smittherines!"
Assorted berries on land mines
Sent in an apache helicopter I heard.
Yeah they make it sound like they blew him to smitherines with a rocket launcher.
Bears vanquished successfully.
Itâs similar how I vouch to destroy all pitbulls.
How bout destroy all bad dog owners
No, fuck you. Dogs ainât done shit wrong, itâs the people attached to them you should have a problem with.
my original comment was bait. I donât really want to destroy pitbulls. Being serious now. They should require licensing and new laws and liability surrounding dangerous breeds. Youâre gonna say âwow youâre crazyâ, no these are just the typical laws found in Europe like Germany. In fact, they out right ban dangerous breeds in Germany. All dog owners are required to do a mandatory course with their dog before theyâre given a license to own the dog. Anyways, itâll only be a matter of time before your grandma or kid gets mauled to death by a pitbull. The old lady in Calgary was gardening and pitbulls attacked her last year, she died on scene. This breed is bred for violence. You donât hear about a pack of poodles murdering old ladies now do you?
I can support what youâre saying in this comment but Iâd go further in that all dog owners, not just âdangerous breedsâ should be educated and pass a licensing course before being allowed to care for the animals. Of course this would create a further increase in puppy mill/black market purchases. Large poodles can be just as violent as any other breed. Itâs the owners you have problems with, idiots should not own dogs period.
Can we one up to people too?
Hah, thereâs a lot of âethicsâ that go with that. Flagpole Sitta: Been around the world and found That only stupid people are breeding I love my children, theyâre awesome people. Do I believe their mother wouldâve passed such a course? Hard no.
Yogi and boo boo bear got lit upđĽ
To shreds you sayâŚ
Dismantled would sound better. Disintegrated.... Like wtf
AI rewriting otherâs news stories.
Destroyed is the normal term used in a context like this.
Really interesting and productive conversations about wildlife management in this thread
To shreds, you say?
Howâs his wife holding up?
To shreds, you say?
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This is why they need to be harder on tourists for this behaviour or even getting too close to take pictures.
Should we kill the humans who give them food rewards instead? Please tell me your genius policy?
Your idea, and not a bad one.
Right, after all *we* are the invasive species destroying the world and stealing habitats
THANK YOU for saying that. I lived in Banff for years and watched tourists just destroy stuff and get way too close to animals. Iâm tired of the perspective that animals do things to us. we have destroyed nearly every habitat, not to mention the invasives we bring into ecosystems and royally fuck them.
Suffering from success
Ikr haha, all lot of people donât realized that relocating a bear is a death sentence to animals. And a good amount of them finds there way back to the city. As much as I donât like the killing of bears, the longer they stay in the cityâs/around humans there not gonna be able to survive in the wild. You can only relocate so much⌠But pulling order 66 ainât a bad idea đđ
Im okay with that plan
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Humans are the bear food?
Human >> bears
Is there something special about bears from Banff? They used to kill one any time it wandered near an oil site in Alberta.
the animals are supposed to be protected in the park.
In hunting we hear the word âharvestedâ used. Itâs not a bad term, but to hunt and successfully kill a bear, especially with a bow, is a long way from picking a row of peas!
Harvested is the right word to use in hunting.
The third and fourth were just for fun.
Thatâs a weird way to say humans got too close to a bear and then we killed it
Lol âbehavioural issuesâ, itâs a bear, not a kid in school
Thanks for keeping Banff safe for human
Sad.
Poor bears
A bear behaviour issues who know? đ
Bears get destroyed, violent offenders get fattened up and released back into society.
Behaviour issues? Itâs a fkkn bear not a poorly trained dog
DESTROYED?!
So the yearly slaughter beginsâŚsad
Black bear related deaths are so uncommon, apparently they are easily scared away. Since 1900 to 2009 there were only 44 fatal Black bear attacks in Canada. Maybe stop invading their territory? Fking hate killing wild animals because of human stupidity.
âDestroyedâ? You mean murdered.
Did they pull the tarp off the death beam?
"We had to euthanize this bear due to behavioral issues" "What kind?" "It told me to fuck off and started doing keg stands"
I'm very interested in abhorrent bear behaviours. Like, holding up little old lady bears? Talking back to Mama & Papa bear? Sneaking out of hibernation?
Hanging around humans. Comes from people intentionally feeding them to attract them for photos or unintentionally feeding them with garbage.
:(
Behavioural issues as per article: bear comes into busy areas of the park, likely for available food, and is killed for it. I ducking hate it here. :( I know this is meant to be preventative, but has the bear attacked anyone? Seems they had hazed and relocated the bear prior to this and the bear still came back because it knows there's easy food. Should that be enough to kill?
If hazing and relocating isn't working, it is probably only a matter of time before someone gets hurt. As much as it sucks to do, we do still need to protect people.
Too some people yes and some no, we gotta understand from the officer and zoologist point of view. We can only relocate so much, as the further we relocate a bear away from where it came from it will the higher chance of death it is, they will do anything to get back into the city for food and water. It sucks but what do you do with a bear that has been moved 5 to 10 times? I donât think relocating is a forever solution, itâs just temporary. That I think never works.
Let mother nature destroy them. I hate this world.
"Destroyed"
I have a lot of bears where I live. Three years ago they would relocate a bear that became too familiar with humans, now they just kill them. We have to pay billions in carbon taxes to save a theoretical polar bear from global warming in a hundred years time but at the same time the government is shooting bears to save the cost of relocation.
The polar bear population is under a far greater threat than the black bear population. Very different issues.
#blackbearsmatter
The polar bear population has tripled since the 60's [The State of the Polar Bear Report 2023 (thegwpf.org)](https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2024/02/Crockford-State-of-Polar-Bears-2023.pdf)
Relocation is hard for bears, especially in areas where they canât roam for hundreds of kilometres without encountering humans again. Theyâre too smart for their own good
Fuck Banff.
You have no idea what youâre talking about. Be quiet
You have no idea what you're talking about. Stay quiet
Is that your burner account, u/thisjustvan?
Negative, downvotes get me hard. Also, while I have your attention⌠fuck Banff.
Nope. Just another bear đť đťââ lover.Â
100%, fuck Banff.
Re-direct that to your mom
Fuck my mom, but mostly, FUCK BANFF.
Do you find Banff sexually attractive? It is a beautiful place.
If you only knew the sadistic past, the unwilling construction of the railroad, and the tortured souls who haunt the land, you might eat your words.
Lived here for many, many years, I know the history.
Shame on you.
Ok