Cathryn Atkinson
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/ 2 August 2005

Canada’s Olympic host city overrun by bears

Dozens of urbanised black bears are making life uncomfortable for residents of the coastal mountain suburbs of Vancouver in Canada’s westernmost province of British Columbia. The number of complaints against black bears in north Vancouver has reached an all-time high of 1 200 so far this year, four times the number conservation officers received last year.