Mammoth Hot Springs, WY – An 11-year-old grizzly bear, who repeatedly overturned dumpsters and sought out human food, was captured and killed by Yellowstone National Park staff on May 14. In a release, Yellowstone National Park describes the problem that led to the bear’s demise:
Between April 3 and May 13, the 400-pound grizzly bear overturned several large, bear-resistant dumpsters and gained access to human food and trash near Old Faithful, the Nez Perce Picnic Area, and the Midway Geyser Basin parking lot.
Describing how the decision was made in the interest of public safety:
In addition to developing a strategy to flip over 800-pound dumpsters, the bear also uprooted smaller bear-resistant trash cans from their concrete bases to gain access to human food and garbage. As a result, the bear became increasingly food-conditioned and posed a risk to public safety in one of the busiest areas of the park.
Yellowstone Bear Management Biologist Kerry Gunther said:
“It’s unfortunate that this bear began regularly seeking out garbage and was able to defeat the park’s bear-resistant infrastructure. We go to great lengths to protect bears and prevent them from becoming conditioned to human food. But occasionally, a bear outsmarts us or overcomes our defenses. When that happens, we sometimes have to remove the bear from the population to protect visitors and property.”
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I hope these evil people, the so called Yellowstone National Park Staff, will burn in hell soon!!! EVIL MURDERERS!!!! God will make you pay!!!!
Ugh. So typical, the poor bear is desperate for food and instead of relocating it, they kill it. Humans really are the worst thing to ever happen to the world.
Ugh. So typical, the poor bear is desperate for food and instead of relocating it, they kill it. Humans really are the worst thing to ever happen to the world.
What a horrible situation and what a horrible reason to kill a living creature. They are not protecting them if they themselves are killing them instead of finding a real solution. Humans are the absolute most dangerous and deadly creature on this planet, and times like this shows it is still true and we are still barbaric. A better person would have found a real solution instead of taking ‘the easy way out’ and just killing this starving bear.
WTF, maybe we should kill YOU 🫵, for just existing or enjoying eating at your Barbeque. How fucking stupid to kill a living creature, you fucking could have relocated the Bear to another area or a Park far away!! But Noooo, 1st thing to do is KILL IT!! Assholes!!
Shame on you Bastards!! 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬
This bear is looking for food that is SUPPOSED to be in her environment, but HUMANS kill everything and clear out all brush, trees, forests, EVERYTHING!!! So leave it to the HUMAN to kill a bear who is hungry!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!
This bear is looking for food that is SUPPOSED to be in her environment, but HUMANS kill everything and clear out all brush, trees, forests, EVERYTHING!!! So leave it to the HUMAN to kill a bear who is hungry!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!
TERRIBLE and stupid solution to a problem that should have been solved by simply moving the bear to another area SOONER.
Do they kill the idiots who keep going right up to wildlife like bison and moose over and over? No.
No. They kill the bison in case they attack. Absolutely brain dead fucking idiots!
Just another lame excuse to kill. It’s humans who enroach the territory of the wild animals, not the other way around.
Not much of a caring business for bears is it
Perhaps relocating the bear to the wild away from a park with humans and human food would have been a better solution. Amazing and sad the conclusions reached by the human race. The most dangerous animal on the planet is the one that walks on two legs.
daily EVIL from DEVIL usa. Murdering innocent starving animals after taking over & destroying their habitats & food chains
daily EVIL from DEVIL usa. Murdering innocent starving animals after taking over & destroying their habitats & food chains
Wow! I LOVE all the posts. Glad I’m not the only crazy animal lover….
Now what I would tell these murders is….you needed to move that Bear so far away from humans, not just the nearest spot because you are so lazy to actually move this poor Bear so far away that he had no choice but to re learn how to forage. SAD!
This action by the staff is inexcusable. The bear was not a threat to human life, he was doing what bears do. They could have relocated him away to a further area. They should lose their jobs if not be arrested. This behavior is dispicable.
It’s not because you are a “crazy animaI Iover.”
It is because peopIe Iike that ranger are unevoIved NeanderthaIs.
What happened to the comment I just repIied to?
Maybe if people stopped knocking down and taking over their habitats they would have enough wild ways to survive with enough food to eat. They are only trying to survive in a diminishing world and are hungry. Why not take an area away from the public to actually FEED them. Its not rocket science. I have a farm and to keep the wild animals at bay from eating my crops and doing damage to my property to get food, I feed them regularly. An animal with a full stomach is NOT going to do everything in its power to satisfy the HORRIBLE agony of starvation. It just unethical to keep killing animals who only are fighting to survive.
I agree. Humans are ” in control ” of everywhere fences are put up and areas designated for people to have fun, and animals put down if they don’t adhere to the human rules. To KILL a beautiful bear for upturning garbage bins etc, for basically showing Park Employees getting annoyed, is pretty DISGUSTING and of course should not be acceptable behavior either on the Bear’s part, or the Park Rangers either , AND !!!!!! isn’t there ENOUGH KILLING in the world already ????? and this killing of a bear for THIS reason????? is pretty outrageous AND BAD DECISIONS.
Surely ??? Park Rangers have the means to straighten a few garbage bins ?? KILLING is NOT THE ANSWER.
Killing is the humans” answer to everything. What if that were in reverse?- Every time that humans went anywhere and invaded wildlife areas, they were attacked and killed by the wildlife. Wouldn’t be fun, huh??? Humans Invade, kill, wipe out, and destroy, everything they touch!!!
SO, JUST KILL ‘ALL’ THE BEARS ?, AND THAT WILL SOLVE ‘ALL’ THE PROBLEMS ???
OF COURSE, PEOPLE ARE ‘NEVER’ THE PROBLEM, AND ‘NEVER’ CONTRIBUTE TO
THESE PROBLEMS OF COURSE ??? !!!!!