City leaders in Monrovia, California asked that a mother bear and her two cubs be relocated to the Angeles National Forest instead of euthanizing the mother bear. The bear and her cubs had been living in a den underneath a local home.
According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the bear had charged and swiped at the back of a woman’s knees as she walked along Oakglade Drive with her dog on Saturday.
A neighbor responded and helped scare the bear away; the woman was treated for nonserious injuries and released.
More housing developments, more shopping centers and the extensive fire damage to the forests had caused the bears to hunt for food in more populated areas. Add that to people leaving out food, not securing trash securely and feeding wildlife have added to the dangerous situations.
After the devastating fires, life has started to come back; and instead of protecting it, officials are choosing to destroy it again.
The news of the bear’s killing and her orphaned cubs has been met with outrage by many in the community.
The Monrovia City Council requested and lobbied for the bear and her cubs to be relocated into the Angeles National Forest but the decision was never the City’s to make.
On Tuesday, the bear was euthanized after having been captured on Sunday. DNA revealed this had not been the bear’s first attack. DNA taken from Saturday’s incident matched DNA taken from a reported incident in June when a bear swiped at an elderly man sitting on his porch in the same area. The man has since fully recovered from his injuries.
The city says the two cubs are healthy and will be relocated to a facility before eventually being reintroduced into wild land areas.
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