Collier County, FL – Wildlife officials in Florida are trapping and killing bears in an effort to find the one responsible for fatally mauling an 89-year-old man and a dog near the community of Jerome. The deadly incident happened on Monday morning when a black bear apparently entered Robert Markel’s trailer.
Authorities responding to 911 calls found Markel’s trailer in disarray; the trailer was torn apart but the responding deputies did not find any blood. The elderly man’s wallet and clothes were found approximately 20 yards from the trailer, along with a significant amount of blood. The deceased dog was found in a different area, not far from the trailer.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesperson George Reynaud commented on the unusual attack, “We do know it was a bear attack. We don’t know if it was the same bear or multiple bears.”
Wildlife officials have killed three bears so far. DNA from the bears is being sent away for testing in an effort to see if one, or more, of them were involved in the deadly attacks.
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Just because someone works for fish and wildlife doesn’t mean they have a place in their heart for animals. Their ranks are full of jerks just like any other agency.
This is ludicrous, these bears are SENTIENT BEINGS, they have families, and THEIR environment is endangered by humans. How do they know if it was a bear who killed this man and his dog?!
It could have been another human. To go senselessly killing all bears is just that, SENSELESS. LEAVE THEM ALONE and protect them! The bears are the ones who need protection from the ignorant humans who pay to kill beautiful, dignified wild animals for trophies, shame on all who CONDONE this barbarity!
This is ludicrous, these bears are SENTIENT BEINGS, they have families, and THEIR environment is endangered by humans. How do they know if it was a bear who killed this man and his dog?!
It could have been another human. To go senselessly killing all bears is just that, SENSELESS. LEAVE THEM ALONE and protect them! The bears are the ones who need protection from the ignorant humans who pay to kill beautiful, dignified wild animals for trophies, shame on all who CONDONE this barbarity!
This is ludicrous, these bears are SENTIENT BEINGS, they have families, and THEIR environment is endangered by humans. How do they know if it was a bear who killed this man and his dog?!
It could have been another human. To go senselessly killing all bears is just that, SENSELESS. LEAVE THEM ALONE and protect them! The bears are the ones who need protection from the ignorant humans who pay to kill beautiful, dignified wild animals for trophies, shame on all who CONDONE this barbarity!
So by this logic next time someone is murdered in this town anyone fitting the description could be executed just in case they are the guilty party. Common sense is not a requirement for wildlife officials. What is wrong with these people?
I agree. They just voted to allow trophy hunting also. They want to
Kill off the bears so the land can be developed. Get in the phones.
These disgusting misappropriated officials should do a Mexican standoff and fucking kill each other .The Poor Bears Have more soul and love for this world than these evil fucking murdering human scum
Ok so killing ALL the bears is the solution???!!! These “wildlife officials” can definitely trap, sedate these bears to get a DNA sample. They need to kill them all???!!! WTF
WHY??? It makes no sense to start killing multiple bears in hopes of finding the one who killed the man and dog? Once again, officials have shown they are of lower intelligence than the very animals they are killing.
Kill the bears, just in case? Where do they get these staff from? Have they no common sense? It is dreadful that the elderly man and his dog have been killed, but what will more killing prove? Why is it always the Wild Animal’s fault? Bears attack for various reasons. Why was there parking spaces available so closely to their habitat? Come on ‘officials’ do your homework! You’re in the business of CONSERVATION nor murder.
OMG how is this helping?!! You don’t just kill all the bears ‘just in case’!!! These wildlife officials care absolutely nothing for these animals they are supposed to be protecting and this is proof right here!! They have to be other ways to get a blood sample thru sedation rather than death. SO AWFUL
When a human is killed by another human, do police go out and kill 3 people “just in case” one of them was the murderer?????
These officers are the most brain-dead idiots and don’t belong in either law OR conservation. They belong sweeping up the floor in a prison.
We need intelligence and common sense in conservation police, and education for a very stupid public that doesn’t know how to live among wildlife, esp. considering that we’ve taken over all their homes.,
So we have many killed bears, a dead man and a dead dog. What is the purpose of all of this when killing won’t bring back the dead nor will serve the justice as bears are wild animals and one can expect they will attack. What will officials do when they receive the DNA results? They’ll tell “oh well, this was the one, case closed”. For what?
They definitely do not give IQ tests to ‘wildlife officials’. And they belong to the CONSERVATION department. Maybe someone who can read should look up the definition of the word ‘conservation’. You move into their home areas and then expect them to know and live by your laws. The answer to all your inquiries and problems is Kill it. You are supposed to be their Voice, their protectors, not their Executioners!
More inhumane stupid decision making by humans. Bless those poor bears.
💯AGREE! Killing the innocent to catch the culprit! Not humane and not smart!
This is insane by ignorant people. Why don’t they just go and kill all the bears, problem solved. Just plain stupid.
They had to KILL them to get the DNA???? They couldn’t just TRAP, confine, dart them to put them to sleep to get it?????
They definitely do not give IQ tests to ‘wildlife officials’. And they belong to the CONSERVATION department. Maybe someone who can read should look up the definition of the word ‘conservation’. You move into their home areas and then expect them to know and live by your laws. The answer to all your inquiries and problems is Kill it. You are supposed to be their Voice, their protectors, not their Executioners!
This is ludicrous, these bears are SENTIENT BEINGS, they have families, and THEIR environment is endangered by humans. How do they know if it was a bear who killed this man and his dog?! They don’t! i
It could have been another human. To go senselessly killing all bears is just that, SENSELESS. LEAVE THEM ALONE and protect them! The bears are the ones who need protection from the ignorant humans who pay to kill beautiful, dignified wild animals for trophies, shame on all who CONDONE this barbarity!