Bear With Us Sanctuary and Rehabilitation Centre for Bears

Bear With Us Mission: To promote the understanding and respect for the bear family, a species near the top of the evolutionary scale, a species in direct niche competition with the human race.

Eighteen years (2010) of working with adult bears that are victims of hunting, automobile and various injuries, helping orphan cubs and the need to relocate perceived nuisance bears has allowed Mike to observe the many varied reactions to human interference by bears. What Mike finds incredible is a bear’s ability for exhibiting restraint.

Bear With Us provides educational information regarding bears, bear behaviour as well as promoting co-existence between people and bears to reduce conflicts. Slide presentations and lectures are offered to interest groups such as nature clubs, Provincial Parks, schools, scouts, guides etc. Bear With Us offers a problem (nuisance) bear relocation service locally and provides rehabilitation for orphan cubs and injured bears in addition to offering permanent sanctuary for some non-releasable adults.

Bear With Us has received international attention on several occasions. Examples such as the arrival of Molly in 1994, an abused circus bear from Ireland. Soon to follow was another ex circus bear from England, Yogi in April 1995 spear headed by the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). Yogi and Molly are still happily residing at Bear With Us in 2010. TV coverage of the work of Bear With Us has been featured across Canada, the United States, U.K. and Australia. For Example, in July of 2008, Bear With Us allowed the Oasis HD Nature Channel to film the release of seven 18 month old orphaned cubs being returned to the wild.