{"id":930895,"date":"2026-07-13T00:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/930895\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T00:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:26:17","slug":"bear-found-wandering-in-bourne-woods-relocated-police-say-boston-25-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/930895\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear found wandering in Bourne woods relocated, police say \u2013 Boston 25 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph\">BOURNE, Mass. \u2014 Bourne police said a black bear found wandering around the Buzzards Bay Area has been relocated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph\">Over the past few days, Bourne police and Bourne\u2019s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) have been monitoring reports of the bear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph\">On July 12, around 7:30 a.m., police received reports that the bear had made its way into Bourne Scenic Park. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph\">DNR and officers responded and monitored the movements of the bear and observed the animal go back into the woods without issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph\">Due to the proximity of the bear to a heavily populated area, Massachusetts Environmental Police responded and made the determination to sedate the bear and relocate it to a safer location. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph\"><b>Download the <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/local\/have-new-device-get-our-free-boston-25-news-weather-apps\/PDC6X7UKOFDBVPV5YJHG3CX36I\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>FREE Boston 25 News app<\/b><\/a><b> for breaking news alerts.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph\">Follow Boston 25 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Boston25News\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/boston25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/video\/live-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch Boston 25 News NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 fcApnw body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOURNE, Mass. \u2014 Bourne police said a black bear found wandering around the Buzzards Bay Area has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":930896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[2416,2731,136167,375353,375354,104,136166,375356,375355,2739,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":["post-930895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-black-bear","tag-boston","tag-boston-25-news","tag-bourne","tag-bourne-police-department","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-story","tag-buzzards-bay-area","tag-mass-department-of-environmental-police","tag-massachusetts","tag-science","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116909833406100843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}