Mike Badry works with the BC Parks and Conservation Officer Service division and is responsible for the province's Wildlife-Human Conflict Prevention Strategy. He says the number of bears killed by conservation officers in B.C. The number of black bears put down by conservation officers ranged from about 700 to 1,600 animals per year in the 1990s. conservation officers killed 564 black bears. Badry agrees and says that's been the experience in B.C., though the context there is often far more urban than in Yukon.

Source: CBC News March 28, 2019 22:52 UTC