Kootenay Bear Awareness Program $20,000

The British Columbia Conservation Foundation (the foundation) has taken the initiative to expand the successful Revelstoke Bear Awareness Program (BAP) to communities throughout the Columbia Basin. The BAP is recognized as helping Revelstoke, in prime black and grizzly bear country, to reduce bear-human conflicts by 90% since its inception in 1996. The Kootenay Bear Awareness Program was unveiled in September '98 and the public and media response in support of the program has been overwhelming. Calls for more information have come from communities and media across BC including many from within the Columbia Basin. This demand was probably heightened by the fast that 1998 was the worst year on record for bear-human conflicts. Over 400 black and grizzly bears were officially destroyed in the Kootenays as perceived or actual threats to human safety. The Project Goals are as follows:

1. Increase public awareness of the conflicts created by bears foraging in communities.
2. Reduce bear mortality by preventing the conditioning and habituation of bears.
3. Encourage a public stewardship ethic through better management of bear attractants.

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