Bear Attacks on People
"A bear that gets used to being around people and depending on us for food is a dead bear".
Those two statements outrage me more than words can describe. Why would a bear have to die because it gets too used to us -- because we cause it to get used to us by being able to go into its territory.
In one of my previous articles called "Bears: ", I wrote about bears being killed because they come into our neighborhoods. Why? -- because we are protecting our neighborhoods -our territory- and our loved ones from possibly being hurt because we consider the bear a threat to us. So to me, it's understandable that a bear would attack a person who enters their territory becasue they are doing the same thing that we do -- protecting its territory and loved ones because they consider us a threat to them. But yet when there is an attack on a human, that bear gets killed because it's too dangerous to live. I have two big problems with that:
1. The person that kills a bear that comes into our territory gets praised for doing so -- not killed!! Why though? That person is only doing the same thing that a bear would do if a person entered its territory. Why should a bear have to suffer and die for protecting its cubs and its territory -(which you could say is just like our houses to us)- because we're the more "evolved species"??
2. A bear is considered too dangerous to live because it attacked a person. Has anyone stopped to think why these attacks happen? Hmm... could it be because we are allowed into their territory? I THINK SO! They're not allowed into our territory -- why should we be allowed into theirs? The answer is simple, because mose people consider humans to be the "dominent species" on this earth and because of that we can do whatever we want or go where ever we want. We have taken over so much of this earth for ourselves, maybe we should share some with the bears and give them the land that they have without any interaction with us. Some people might say - "Well, it's our land too, we should be able to share it". My answer to that -- #1. If we weren't able to go into their territory there would be fewer, if not no attacks of bears on people and #2. Why should we when we don't share our land with them? We have to stop being so greedy and learn how to share this earth with the other living creatures. We might be the more educated and evolved species on this earth -- but that certainly does NOT mean that bears are any less worthy of having their own land too.
