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This is heartbreaking. Cubs are now without their mother. 💔 A female black bear in Monrovia has been killed after swiping at a woman walking her dog. Officials say DNA linked her to a previous encounter months earlier, and that was enough to justify killing her.

But here’s what they won’t center: She was a mother, raising two cubs in shrinking habitat, navigating human neighborhoods because we continue to build deeper into wildlife corridors. Her cubs were found hiding in a den under a home, exactly where a mother would keep them safe.

She wasn’t a “rogue” animal, just a displaced wild mother trying to survive. Why do we keep punishing wildlife for encroaching on their habitat?

Her cubs will be sent to a rehabilitation facility to eventually be released. 

The city of Monrovia requested relocation, but the decision was not theirs. By the time they engaged with state officials, the kill decision had already been made.  We cannot keep defaulting to lethal force every time wildlife interacts with us in landscapes we’ve taken from them.

📍 TAKE ACTION and demand coexistence, not killing:

📧 Email:wildlife.ca.gov/Contact

📞 Phone: (916) 445-0411

📲 Instagram:@californiadfw

Tell the California Department of Fish and Wildlife:
-Invest in non-lethal coexistence strategies
-Prioritize relocation for mothers with cubs
-Expand public education + conflict prevention programs
-Protect wildlife habitat so these encounters don’t happen in the first place

Every time we choose killing over coexistence, we fail the very wildlife we claim to protect. Haven’t we done enough damage? 

She wasn’t the problem, our system is. 🐻