Grizzly Bear Audit Critical Of Government

The provincial government is getting a failing grade from Auditor General Carol Bellringer protecting BC`s 15 thousand grizzly bears.

Bellringer has released an audit that says the Ministries of Environment and Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations have not fulfilled many of their commitments.

That includes a grizzly bear management plan and the implementation of a recovery plan in the North Cascades.

Also absent was an inventory and monitoring strategy of grizzly bears in B.C. and clear policies for bear viewing.