Three bears that were spotted last week in Burnaby's Cariboo Heights neighbourhood have made a second appearance, this time on Burnaby Mountain near the secondary school.
Mounties were at Burnaby Mountain Secondary Tuesday morning, once again trying to herd the bears into the forest and away from public areas.
"They're the same bears that we've had in that exact same area for the last week or so," said Cpl. Dave Reid of the Burnaby RCMP.
According to Reid, officers were having trouble getting the bears to move on from the school grounds and at about 10 a.m. had called in conservation officers to help corral the bears.
"The concern here, of course, is that they were probably 10 to 15 metres away from the school grounds," he said. "They don't seem to be in a big rush to leave the area quickly."
Students at Burnaby Mountain were being kept inside the school while the Mounties and conservation officers dealt with the three black bears, Reid added.
"(The conservation officers) will make a determination, once they see the bears behaviour, as to what steps they need to take with them. Whether we can relocate them ... or whether or not they'll have to be destroyed," he said.
Burnaby Mounties spent the morning of June 7 playing Goldilocks with the same three bears that were roaming around the Cariboo Heights neighbourhood, near the border of New Westminster.
According to a media release, the bears were spotted in the 7500-block of Craig Street going through garbage bins that had been left out for pickup. Officers spent a few hours trying to herd the adult bears back towards the park and away from public areas.
Burnaby RCMP is reminding residents to keep all garbage in sealed containers and ensure that all food is stored properly so as not to "create opportunities for foraging that (bears) find hard to resist."
