Our role is to support communities to educate and engage citizens in reducing human-bear conflict.
We offer assessments and can help plan and implement critical communication and outreach strategies to help make communities safe for people and wildlife.
Reducing bear mortalities has become a major concern for companies working in bear country. Keeping up with the latest research, regulations and bear conflict solution techniques is essential.
Bear Safety & More can help you to meet your environmental responsibilities and become leaders in responsible development, safety and environmental stewardship. It can also create a sense of pride in staff who work for a company that takes an active role in conserving wildlife and increasing safety for workers.
I have been a research scientist studying conservation and implementing management of grizzly bears for the past 20 years. The real challenge in coexisting with grizzly bears is managing people. To do that we need to understand how to live, work, and behave in bear country, and then get ourselves to actually integrate these principles into our daily lives. No one understands this and knows how to make this happen better than Kim Titchener. Her innovative WildSmart program actually reaches people in ways that connect and has proven very successful.
Industrial camps operating within bear habitat from April 1 to November 30 should complete a “Bear-Human Conflict Management Plan for Camps”, based on the size and duration of the camp operation. These plans allow a systematic check of BearSmart action steps to prevent conflicts.
Bears and Industrial Workers guidelines, Province of Alberta
The new Industry BearSmart Program provides strategies to reduce attractants at worksites and education tools for workers to minimize human-bear encounters. The program focuses on two primary components: the industrial camps where workers are housed and the safety of the individual employees working in bear habitat.
Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resources Development