$1,000 reward posted after black bears found dismembered in Fraser Valley

A B.C. conservation radical is offering a $1,000 reward for accusation starring to a condemnation successful a suspected carnivore poaching incident.

Fishing usher Yves Bisson told Global News helium recovered 2 dormant black bears floating successful the Harrison River adjacent Chilliwack, B.C., connected the weekend.

The carnivore carcasses were tied together, their paws were severed and their stomachs were chopped open.

Bisson believes whoever killed the bears was aft their gallbladders and paws for merchantability connected the achromatic market.

According to Monitor Conservation Research Society, carnivore poaching is “driven by request for their gall bladders and bile, which are highly invaluable ingredients successful accepted medicines utilized to dainty a assortment of ailments specified arsenic the flu, sores, hemorrhoids, sprains, epilepsy, and liver diseases.”

On Wednesday, the Fur-Bearers posted a reward aimed astatine catching whoever is responsible.

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“Poaching has nary spot successful British Columbia,” Fur-Bearers enforcement manager Lesley Fox said successful a media release.

“We are encouraging immoderate residents who whitethorn person information, information oregon way camera footage, oregon who whitethorn person witnessed antithetic enactment successful this country to interaction investigators astatine the BC COS.”

The BC Conservation Officer Service has confirmed the dormant bears were reported connected Oct. 5 and said officers were investigating the killing.

Anyone with accusation is asked to telephone the Report All Poachers and Polluters (RAPP) enactment astatine 1-877-952-7277.