Residents on the Burin Peninsula are asking for greater wildlife resources as they deal with a bold family of bears that has been causing problems for the people of Spanish Room.
Lisa Slaney says the female and two cubs have been getting into garbage—and mischief—for the last month or more, and residents are fearful of a serious encounter with the hungry animals that are fattening up before winter hibernation.
Slaney says there is only one wildlife officer for the entire Burin Peninsula. She says a live trap was set up at the bus turnaround in Spanish Room on Friday, but bear sightings have been concentrated in a residential area some distance away.
She says there’s been “absolutely no movement around the trap” and she fears that the bears, which are moving between Spanish Room and Rock Harbour, have a taste for human garbage and aren’t interested in what’s in the trap.