People and Bears Live in Harmony in This Wildlife-Friendly Town | Short Film Showcase
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Canada’s Bow Valley has been living harmoniously with grizzly bears and other wildlife for the the past 20 years.
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In addition to adding bear-proof trash cans, the burgeoning town has also replaced attractants like fruit trees, built wildlife crossings over highways, and provided education to the local populace. Their creative solutions have helped to manage local wildlife while keeping residents and visitors safe to enjoy the beautiful scenery the area has to offer.
See this problem-solving town take action in this short film by Leanne Allison and Front Range Films.
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Canada's Bow Valley draws over 4 million visitors every year to its wildlife-friendly town. How do you think other places in the world can achieve this level of coexistence between people and animals?
Respecting boundaries of natural habitat and considering the animals natural instinct -stay out of their way. Us as human people need to take the smart protective action and follow rules and regulations that have been set for logical reasons.
I think or at least hope that we can. Thanks to programmes produced by yourselves help not only highlight the issues but break down the barriers that humans have put up that we are the smartest and so we can do whatever we want, whenever we want and to whoever we want without considering the other side of the glass. Animals such as bears have proven time and time again to be clever and adaptive to their surroundings, just like humans do but unlike humans only take what they need to survive. In todays society we see a lot of the me, me, me culture but not so much of thinking of others. I only hope for humanities sake as well as for animals and environments sake we take heed before it is too late.
How do we "respect the boundaries"? There are no boundaries. According to our constitution the land is only our to take - crown land which becomes private land - stripped of all natural characteristics with the animals killed off. Banff or Canmore are no success stories . Some effort is made, a few animals were saved, but the big picture is bleak. Animals die on the roads and railways across Canada and their habitat is constantly destroyed by logging, mining and other "resource development".
I'm happy that wildlife is being managed so well, but instead of red zones being places to keep bears out, it would be so much better to teach the people in those zones to how to act around the wildlife going in such zones. It is high time humans stop preventing animals from coming around them and learn how to act around them even if that means the humans have to go into a house/building and staying there until the bears or whatever other animals leave.
We have to adapt as a society, and get rid of the commercialization. Build in ways that don't affect wild life as much. In a commercial development, the housing units use up much land. 1280sq ft per unit. For one or two people? A family of four? It's bad resource management. As a society we have to figure out what is needed, and get rid of the rest.
Wow look at that, people changing their behavior instead of attempting to fight nature.
I wish we had some of that down here in america.
America is a continent not a country 😉 thats a little bit ignorant isn't it ? 😅
😆 fool
@@sokol7215 America is 2 continents even:-)
sokol America itself is a country but North America is the continent and South America is another continent. But i feel like you knew this.
@@sokol7215 When someone says america they think of the us literally anyone who knows anything or someone who hasnt lived under a rock can tell you that
Canadians seems to be a bunch of thoughtful people.
That’s why I want to move there
Tha guy sounds like he needs a cigarette.
Daniel Hunter ok
@@danielhunter6059 same
As an American, this whole thing was shockingly Canadian..
"You're telling me you chop down your apple trees and take in your birdfeeders so that bears can terrorize you every day? *Stares intensely while standing on bear skin rug*
What a great example of how we can co-exist with free-roaming animals, keeping them and ourselves safe, and NOT killing them!
Building all those houses in their habitat IS killing them
VeganVixen because one town doesn’t kill them doesn’t mean all of the surrounding areas are not maintaining the necessary balance
VeganVixen but removing their food source cutting down trees and diminishing their habitat is ok
Ben williams u r so stupid
@@Automedon2 you are kidding right? We have these massive cities that have destroyed immense wildlife and their habitat. These cities account for far more deaths even today than the smaller developments and communities that tend to crossover. You need to educate yourself.
More wildlife corridors over Interstates are needed everywhere
bryan carter then you pay
@@jensjensen9035 we can all pay...let's put our taxes to good use...
@@armidagomez-lewis7613 no i dont want to pay and no its not ''good use'', you leftists always want more more and even more.
@@jensjensen9035 nothing but compassion for you
@@jensjensen9035 We are paying either way. If you have ever hit a deer you would learn the true cost. I live in the northeast and I know many people who have hit deer, that would include me. My truck was in the shop for almost a month, insurance paid for the repairs and rental car but as we know we all paid indirectly. My co worker hit a deer last year on I95 and totaled a brand new car, loss of about 40,000. Its a very common issue and I have also had many close calls. They have installed large fences and the deer just jump over them. Its truly amazing how high than can jump. Take care
I want to be a part of getting more of this in COLORADO! At minimum, wildlife crossings, and making people aware of the not only the fact that animals EXIST and do things like migrate, but that we have a responsibility toward them that will benefit HUMANS too.
"That's what the smart people do"
lol...ya, liked that also
@M E idk how we Canadians are so weird.
@@darkcattoau1156 i dont either. But yall are one of a kind. I imagine all canadians like the camping with steve guy.
Yeah but he also comes off as kind of a d-bag when he could just be educating people about the situation.
@@sishaq94 Yeah I can understand how you got that impression, especially with the way he worded it, but tbh... he is literally the Complete Opposite of any version of "D-Bag".
I think with the camera filming him, he was just trying to get the correct and safest info out there as best he could.
Maybe we can give this Conservation Officer the benefit on this one.?? I know he personally just wants to keep humans SAFE ...while not disturbing the incredible wildlife they live with.
Like, Pocohantas sang in the movie by the same name, “You think you own ever land you land on”. They didn’t land on the land, but found the town. Then took over all of the animals’ natural habitat. Then get scared of the animals that were already there. As animal habitats gets taken away from them, there are going to be problems with keeping the animals from barging into the neighborhoods. Shoot they don’t know where to go
Finally someone who gets it. These people are building non-stop in natural habitat and then pretending to be conservationists.
EXACTLY!!!! You're absolutely right. Pocohantas said it perfectly!
This documentary makes me so proud of Canadians and people from Alberta. Congratulations ☺🙏🏼
People need to remember bears and all these other animals are wild and were there first. Don't be stupid. Don't take risks.
So? Lots of species have died off due to being out competed by other species not just by us. So there is no reason why we should do anything different and treat the competition like they are royalty. This is how nature works.
@@randomguy-zf3qv just because humans can kill off anything we want doesnt mean we should.
@@victoriafonova9692 says you
@in Valhalla神様
Wait. They were there first? Are humans animals or not? Did we evolve from hominids or not?
@@epicfail5473 I think there's a contingency in how you propose that. There's no telling how long the Native Americans have been here. There's also nothing to tell us how long other animal life has been in the environments that we find them today. I'm not saying that you're wrong (necessarily), I'm just saying we shouldn't "jump the gun" and fill in the blanks with baseless assumptions.
9:34 this is beautiful! We need Bridges like this everywhere
There aren't more because they're 5 million or so...each
Am I the only one who feels bad for the wild life? I get that Humans have to take over everything and we have to "make way for wildlife" but it's sad.
you feel bad yet you use animal products? :D
no i feel bad for them too. we just keep pushing them out. they have a right to live and hunt too. we need to have places where no human will go and let the wildlife be.
Ricardo Milos Nobody likes a wise guy.
I def agree
@@lietuviserikas animals also kill other animals, he never said we should completely separate ourselves from them, just to provide a more stable habitat that isn't affected by humans for these animals.
Best line I have ever heard... "you should also be making noise.... that's what smart people do." That guys is sassy AF lol.
The community appears to be doing a great job. I noticed that as with most things problems occurred when individuals thought they were or should be the exception. People traveling in the dark where the animals were moving. It would benefit all if the the feeding areas were closed during the peak eating (to survive winter) season. Thank you for the video.
People can learn from nature... when an invasive species gets out of control and competes with native populations, the results are disastrous. We gotta figure out a way to limit our growth, or else what can we expect?
I don't know if you know this but most species if not all compete with other species to ensure their species survival we are just doing the same thing there is no reason why we should stop killing off the competition for land and just killing off the competition. But just cause we have pitty and try to spare the competition. Not saying there is anything wrong with that but you gotta understand this is how nature works if one species gets too overpowered and starts to kill off all other competition there is nothing wrong with that.
@@randomguy-zf3qv you're a bit of a simpleton aren't ya? Please don't speak about things you know absolutely nothing about.
@@bustarogers9990 Actually random guy is not far off from his point and certainly not blatantly wrong like you claim. Like it, rather understand it or not, extinction is actually a natural phenomena that has existed since the beginning of time and humans "luckily" at least in North America have not been the cause of even a modest amount of these extinctions. We came close to a few, but luckily in the early 1900s began to recognize our impact and changed public opinion, also creating numerous conservation programs that have since benefited almost every species here. Note I said North America. This is not the case in other countries and some countries in Europe as an example has wiped out numerous subspecies of animals such as brown bears, wolves and others.
Back to what random guy said, all species are here to ensure the survival of their own. This is 100% accurate. That means like in the instance of wolves vs. coyotes, wolves will kill coyotes on sight, even though they don't truly rely on the same food sources, at lease of recognizable impact. Brown bears will kill black bears for the same reason. Heck, male bears of all species will kill cubs for the opportunity to mate with their mom. This is all in the interest of securing their blood lines and continuing on as a species.
Add to all of this another potential trigger in "climate change". Climate change is real and again has been active since the beginning of time. Politics seems to try and manipulate the understanding of this by excluding certain statistics, but the reality is the earth has been going through ongoing and cyclical change long before humans walked the planet. Yes, even at greater extremes than the claim today. This change is the cause for mass extinctions. Some quick extinctions like the dinosaurs, and others gradually in form of subspecies that form from adapting to the environment. In effect, a species will evolve into a subspecies. You can see this adaption in almost any species you look at, including humans.
Humans are the first species that are capable and able to recognize the significance of all species, so we continue to take action in a manner we "think" is right. But the reality is, right or wrong, extinction is a natural event and we are no different other than the power we have. Who knows, maybe we will create our own extinction. It would not be the first time.
Was just there for a wedding, and as we ate dinner, we had a view of the golf course , and was very blessed to see a black bear calmly walking across nipping a bit of grass on the way :) I’m so happy to see Canmore doing all they can to coexist with wildlife. They were there first, we need to respect that!
It is cool that they are able to keep safety a main priority while still maintains the animals natural habitat. Love when they work together
if they worked together they wouldn't be building there in the first place.
18:53 is soooo Canadian....someone waving a flag attached to a hockey stick to get the Elk out of the school yard.
Now only if the US would be more proactive with wildlife and land conservation as Canada.
Richard Moran They try to be but the current president is kicking that down sadly by opening up parks in the US to oil drilling..
Abner Chilson where do people get their info? Cause this is a first. Unless.... you’re like every religious person. You see what you want and truth doesn’t matter
Richard Moran now if only Canada had as much money as the us, oh wait that’s not going to happen.
Javier Perwz www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/arctic-alaska-republicans-national-wildlife-refuge-senate-tax-plan-polar-bears-donald-trump-a8088151.html%3famp
Miss She agree. The thing is that you need funding for protection and let’s face it, in Canada the reason why there is wild life is cause there’s a lot of inhabited terrain not cause there is a lot more protection. Here in the u.s. it’s the other way around and without money nothing is possible cause 99 percent of people aren’t willing to give away from their time for free
cycling with toddlers in an area with wild life
- what can go wrong
I would so like to hug this people! ♥!! Thx 4 showing me why i still have not given up hope!
Thanks for making this public. I lived there for a short while and so appreciate all the efforts to manage humans and wildlife for the mutual benefit of all. Good education!
This proves how little people take bears seriously, very ignorant.
In British Columbia bears are taken very seriously, all children in areas with bears and cougars are taught from kindergarten on of the dangers and how to avoid problems and this has resulted in very dramatic drop in death from bear and cougar attack. In all of Canada there are now fewer than one person every two years die from bear attacks.
That's one hell of a beautiful place
That's why all the rich yuppies are moving there to destroy more of it so they can build their houses.
Beautiful- how nice to know we haven’t totally F***ed our planet up & taken beautiful animals with us !!!!
As ever thanks to NatGeo :)
SandMan Jono you are as liberal as they come.
RainbowGotGud better to be liberal than ignorant & blind no?
SandMan Jono lmao that’s what liberals are. Blind and ignorant.
RainbowGotGud LMFAO loving you !!!!
your the one killing the planet
This park ranger @14:16 in the video should have his own show... he was fairly entertaining and informative.
Wowww! Im so lucky that we belong here, we live here in Alberta, Thank You God, and to those people who care here in environment and animals Thank You So Much guys. God bless us. ❤️
This is amazing to watch. It gives me such hope. I live in the Kogelberg Biosphere in South Africa. At the moment we are going through a major crisis in terms of Human-Wildlife Conflict with our Baboons. Our municipality has employed violent measures to monitor our baboons, they chase them with paintball guns, splinter troops to the point that juveniles are not able to survive, and euthanise “problem” baboons (the list goes on). Yet at the same time, our municipality has failed to manage waste/garbage and to manage people who are not securing waste, using bird feeders and growing veggie gardens. It is amazing to see how Bow Valley has managed this situation with compassion and been able to find a solution that benefits both wildlife and humans living on the urban edge. The solution is clearly to manage attractants, waste and people!!
So plant fruit trees like aples and others far away inside the forest , it helps keep animals there,
i see too many people in this forest area , stealing the land of the animals . So sad.
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FEED THE BEARS;. PLANT TREES FOR THEM WITH NUTS & FRUITS & BERRIES. HELP THEM. STOP STEALING THEIR HOMES & ACTING LIKE YOU HUMANS ARE THE ONLY ONES WITH THE RIGHT TO LIVE & HAPPINESS. THEY ARE AS IMP AS YOU ARE.
I would love to live here someday! Just seeing the animals is a treat for me. Helping them to live well would be fantastic!🥰🥰🥰
A great example. It is up to every community to stand up and implement its own version.
This is beary good
get out
Primal Rage until the bear gets super hungry lol
Beary funny
Primal Rage 😄😄😄
hahahahaha just made my day(:
AWESOME!!! This needs to be the way Humans needs to be the way to conserve landscapes for precious animals who belong to this earth no less than us! 🌟
This is so awesome!!! Thank you so much for doing all that for the wild animals and us!!! 💕💖🤩
thats the reason why I like Canada so much. they don't try to keep animals away from people, they just try to show people how everybody can live together. I spend almost every weekend in 2019 around canmore/ Banff for hikings and I never got any problems.
It is true quality of life to live in a SMART community! ❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful, great mind people are build an amazing place to coexist as whole. Thanks for ur effort. I am looking forward to visiting someday.
This guys making something good, we should appreciate that and learn from them.
Great doc; thanks for sharing it, NatGeo. I loved the simplicity of the trash bin solution, taking advantage of bears not being able to rotate their forearms like us simians. Would've liked some explanation on what actions the Aversive Conditioning folks take if the bears they monitor stray too far into the red zones; will have to look that up.
As this video demonstrates, there are ways for people to coexist with wildlife. This should be done everywhere in the world.
My heart finds JOY in living with our eco-systems & Nature !
Thank you for the video. Makes me feel there is hope for wildlife
To keep bears away from somewhere, you could have a "distraction area" for rerouting them. A place where you've planted all the things they like, that have varying "in season" times.
The indeginous plants and trees? What do I know?
I wish more place were like this
EXCEPTIONAL work!! from fthe filmmakers and also from the community!
Wow. Love to lived in this place. Love those beautiful animals
Watching this video reminds me that I’m so glad winter is over.
Those bridges are needed everywhere they are brilliant
We need to change the mindset of people who live in cities/ busy urban areas too because wildlife is inhabiting those areas already. Their #1 killer is cars. Imagine how scary it would be to wake up and everything familiar no longer exists and in order to eat you must navigate a busy highway. Love what you people are doing.
Awesome video! Love what they're doing with WildSmart.
I stayed in Calgary Canada for a month on vacation and I remember seeing those wonderful bridges they had made for the animals to cross over to the other side. Never saw one like that here in America. We need to take better care of the animals and the planet before we destroy it all..
We actually have many in the NW of the lower 48. It's quite common.
Everything about this is pure and I love it.
I love Canada I wish The U.S. could be more like Canada
then move to canada libtard
Liberalism is a disease.
Then move its better in the US anyway tho
Lol those answers, trumptards found, and 3 of them in a row 👏
Hey i hope AOC and Bernie can make America great again!
Move there.
2:37 Ohhhh, a teddy bear from the toy company where stuff animals have a button in their ear, which is called "Steiff" 😁😍 !
This documentary gives me hope and destroys some other at the same time.
Hope, because humans can learn to live in harmony with animals and the wilderness; losing it, because we have to learn it, while driving away true wilderness. Building cities, where no cities should exist.
Wonderful video…what an amazing town.
Wir waren im Kananaskis- Park. im Banff- Park und im Jasper- Park. Eine herrliche Landschaft, wir sahen viele Bären, Wapitis und Hirsche. Erhaltet diese Tiere!
I like this a lot, more places should implement these safety fences. It won't only save animals but human lives as well.
Wow... breathtaking...
Canada sweet Canada 🇨🇦
Brilliant choice on opening music to aesthetic
Lived in Calgary for years and what they aren't saying is that there are EXTREMELY few bears per acre there. If you're in northern bc or Alaska you would have a much different opinion when you find fresh huge bear tracks next to your car
Such a beautiful documentary 👍👍
Canada is so beautiful
It's so beautiful there !!
i love bears and i think its richt to like protect both sides and not only humans.
Nice one with great concept . Awareness and education are the sole solution .
Music at the end? also this was absolutely incredible!
This made me happy
I’m from alberta Canada and I have seen lots of bears it is beautiful but it’s so sad the they are slowly been being killed 😢
I suppose mount biking should be prohibited in those sensitive areas, were you are more likely to encounter bears. As mountain biking is more likely to result in in injury or bear attacks then for instance doing hiking. I have recently hiked in Jasper, and one particular trail was closed due to few injured cyclists because of bear attack.
when i saw the bears runnng on the highway i immediately thought "hope county montana"
I want to live there. I wanna die peacefully.
You are lucky dude.
Reading the comments... they're beautiful! People who care about wildlife and animals do exist!
Go Canada! Well done!
"hey guys! Lets paint a giant picture of that one lady that wanted to pet a grizzly bear! we need to remember her"
i wish i could live in canada someday
Where are u from? We could switch life ;)
I am impressed. Good job... no.... Great Job... Yes. Don't give up , keep working towards your goals.
lol if you get mauled by a bear its just natural selection
Much rather live that way in meaningless capitalism.
When I shoot a young bear is it still natural selection
This excited me so much I'm speechless. I wish the whole U.S. thought and built this way too!
Are you insane? It is these very people who are continually building and expanding into wild habitats.
It is a shame about the loss of wild habitat but I'm glad they took an approach that considers the needs of the animals that have lived there long before humans arrived. It is probably safer to share space in this manner with large carnivores than to live in some cities.
Amazing music, where can I find it?
I went into the woods to find a pikachu and I caught a bear instead. Best trip ever!
*Nat Geo = 🐐* 💯
Humans disturbing the balance.
We evolved on this planet too ok
@@Kenneth_James but we are destroying it. We have wayyy overstepped
I wish we humans would be more considerate of the other wildlife in the world!
Glad this town has figured out how to coexist
EDIT: huh...idk if I'd call this living in harmony. Guess I need to continue watching to find out.
Some humans are considerate of other species in the world some are not you can't just assume every human doesn't have pitty for these animals. There is billions of us out there.
Anyone any idea, what's the soundtrack in the start of this video ?
This is how all of the world should live
Very good teddy is
So another case of understanding urban sprawl
I love the music
It is very important for coexistence. Humans should not kill any wildlife that comes, but they should coexist.
Excellent!
There's a bunch of houses where I live that have crab apple trees in their yard. Seems like every year bears come into town to try to eat them. My town is trying to get people to get rid of them. Sure seeing a bear is cool, but only if you're in a car or in a building, accidently walking into one, not so much.
I just saw the full title and yes I live in the bow valley.
Ridiculous.
It always comes down to a balace, however you get there, with minimal negative consequences.
Animals must have had this question in everyday life “what do I do now ? “ and we human was the main course of the constantly changing world...
I highly recommend that anyone who spends time in bear country reads Stephen Herrero's book 'Bear attacks, their causes, and avoidances'.
take only photographs, leave only footprints.
Amazing channel!
this guy's voice sounds like Saul from Better call Saul lol