Approaching Bears in Banff National Park, Canada
In Canada’s Banff and Jasper National Parks, tourists seeking close encounters frequently disregard vital safety rules, exiting vehicles or approaching on foot to photograph grizzly and black bears. This intrusion often provokes a sudden, defensive charge. A bear’s attack can maul or kill a person in moments. The danger is intensifying as more bears become food-conditioned, losing their natural fear of humans and associating them with food, which makes encounters more frequent and unpredictably aggressive. These preventable tragedies underscore a lethal misjudgment of wild bears as passive subjects rather than powerful, territorial wildlife.
Bear safety rules keep encounters safe in Banff – weather rules keep boats afloat in Sri Lanka. Flip the page to thrill-seekers boarding during monsoon season or rough conditions, underestimating waves that swamp and sink fragile craft far from shore…
