NIWRA: How bear aware are we on Vancouver Island?

Vancouver Island black bears eat both meat and plants, and their sense of smell and hearing is far superior to that of humans. If a hungry bear smells food waste in a barbecue or trash container or a vehicle, it will go after it. Bears are natural scavengers and have good memories, so they will return to locations where they have found food before.
Bears must eat amounts of food, so they don’t starve during the winter months and to produce offspring (cubs are born in January or February in