The department said the bear was spotted near cabins on an access road near La Scie. Newfoundland and Labrador’s Natural Resources Department issued a warning Friday after a polar bear was seen on the Baie Verte Peninsula.
Polar bear sightings continued in the province in the days ahead, albeit they had less dramatic outcomes. What was on my mind was the little kids in the house.” The South American giant short-faced bear roamed its namesake continent. “Not like that, in my whole life,” he said. The photo of a hunter and shot polar bear taken in north-west Canada and used by hunt firms to promote tours is being projected on buildings at COP26 by anti-hunt campaigners. The largest bear on record in modern times was a 2,200-pound (998-kilogram) polar bear shot in Alaska in the 19th century. Louis said polar bears are occasionally spotted as they travel through the region, but he’d never heard of a similar attack. RCMP say wildlife officers shot the bear, which witnesses estimate weighed at least 135 kilograms (300 pounds). Polar bear sightings are not unheard of in northern Newfoundland, but typically, they’re just passing through, feeding on seals and avoiding people.
Polar bear shot windows#
So, that bear was on the prowl.”Īt one home, the bear “just broke the windows out of each side of the house and went on,” Daniel said. And (it) was coming back for more, breaking into people’s houses. “This bear probably just had a lust for blood… All it did was just kill, didn’t eat. “It seemed like it was killing for the sake of killing. I turned on the light, and there was a polar bear standing halfway in through the kitchen door,” Damien recalled. “I heard a noise here in the kitchen at 4:30 in the morning. Polar bears are notoriously aggressive when cornered.
Reardon’s son Damien, 29, had heard a ruckus and flicked on the light to discover the animal. “I mean, it frightened the wits right clean out of me, to be that close to a polar bear.” “(The bear) had the door busted open to the dining room with his two front paws and his head in through the door,” Reardon said from tiny Goose Cove, just south of St. GOOSE COVE, NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR – Fifty-five-year-old Louis Reardon got the shock of his life early Thursday when he leapt out of bed to his son’s cries of “Polar bear!” as a large male bear broke into their home in northern Newfoundland.
This is the second bear to be shot this month in the northern Manitoba community.Ī bear that chased a photographer and rammed a Conservation Department truck was put down July 4. There were a number of people walking about the town at the time, so officers made the decision to shoot to kill when they had a clear opportunity. However, the bear was so aggressive the officers were concerned that, if the dart hit in an awkward way and the drug didn't properly take effect, it could make the animal more agitated, White said. The first option is always to shoot with a tranquilizer dart then relocate the animal outside town limits. "I'm still going to live in Churchill and polar bear country but I will be very more aware of when the kids are playing," McDonald said.Ĭonservation officers tried to lure the bear out of town, but it became aggressive and would not leave, spokesman Paul White said.
Gloria McDonald said she was dropping her kids off to daycare when the bear approached her truck at about 8:30 a.m. McDonald said she screamed and swung her bags at the animal until Conservation officials showed up. Last week, the bear made headlines in Norwegian media as a local posted a video on social media showing the bear walking through the centre of Longyearbyen, making a stop outside the local pub and watched through the window, before slowly continuing down the pedestrian street. (CBC)Ī polar bear was shot and killed by Conservation Deparment officers in Churchill on Friday.Īnd the woman whose terrified screams alerted officials about the bear's presence said she was sad to hear the bear had to be put down. The polar bear was shot at 4 am on January 1st. Churchill is located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay, about 1,100 kilometres from Winnipeg.