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Bear spray

Zoe Kirk, WildSafeBC Community Coordinator at the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen, demonstrates how to use bear spray.
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Zoe Kirk

Zoe Kirk, WildSafeBC Community Coordinator at the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen, demonstrates how to use bear spray. The pepper spray is used in encounters with bears. It is considered effective 99 per cent of the time in black bear attacks and 97 per cent of the time in polar bear attacks.