State officials put down a mother bear and her two cubs in August after a crowd of people gathered in the hamlet to take photos of the ... Referencing the DEC’s black bear response manual ...

A video showing a group of people in North Carolina manhandling black bear cubs and taking photos has gone viral ... risks in separating a cub from its mother, "especially ripped from a tree ...

“Like most rehabilitated black ... then taking photos with her. “People who try to capture or handle a cub are not only risking the cub’s safety, but their own if the mother bear is nearby ...

A black bear cub ... The second cub was never located, the wildlife commission said. It is still unclear whether the cubs were in the tree because they were waiting for their mother to return ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife shared photos of the release, showing a bear cub leaping from the bed of a truck into the forest. A set of bear cubs who were orphaned when their mother was hit by a ...