A person has been handed a prolonged searching ban and fined 1000’s of {dollars} for illegally killing a grizzly bear, B.C. conservation officers say.
In a social media publish Friday, the B.C. Conservation Officer Service shared particulars of an investigation that started in 2020, after the company received a tip from the general public a few man who was utilizing bait to hunt bears within the Elkford space.
BCCOS mentioned their investigation took a full yr, however they apprehended Guofeng Li in June 2021 after he was caught taking pictures a decoy black bear close to the bait. By means of their investigation, officers decided Li shot and killed a grizzly at that very same website and harvested elements from the bear.
“Proof collected throughout the year-long investigation, mixed with info gathered from search warrants executed on Li’s truck and cellphone, resulted in a profitable conviction of killing wildlife not inside open season,” the publish shared by BCCOS mentioned. “There is no such thing as a open season for grizzly bears within the province of British Columbia.”
Grizzly searching was fully banned within the province in December 2017.
Li was sentenced in provincial court docket this week for a Wildlife Act offence. He was fined $10,000 and banned from attempting to find 15 years. He additionally needed to forfeit his rifle, BCCOS mentioned.
Most of Li’s advantageous will go to the Habitat Conservation Belief Basis to assist wildlife habitats within the Elk Valley.
