A B.C. man has been ordered to pay $8,000 to a wildlife conservation foundation after killing a grizzly bear with a bow and arrow during the off-season in 2016.

The hunter shot the female bear near Powell River, B.C., during black bear hunting season in September of that year.

The B.C. Conservation Service said the bear had been relocated from the city six years earlier.

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Coastal First Nations have held a ban grizzly hunting at the Great Bear Rainforest since 2012.

Grizzly Bear

About 250 grizzly bears are killed in B.C. each year by hunters, according to the provincial government. Hunting the bears for meat will still be allowed outside the Great Bear Rainforest.

The man&nbsp;was also fined $1&nbsp;on top of the payment to the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation, which funds wildlife conservation projects across the province. He's&nbsp;on probation for a year and must take a hunting training course.

 and dumped on a logging road in northern B.C.

The animals were found near the community of Granisle, northwest of Prince George.

Family of grizzly bears killed and dumped in Granisle, B.C.

The Conservation Officer Service is searching for whoever is responsible for shooting three grizzly bears— a mother and two cubs— and dumping their bodies in Granisle, B.C.

The findings on nuisance behaviour were based on the study of 2,043 grizzlies in Alberta, British Columbia and Montana. 

Grizzly bear with cubs

A mother grizzly and two cubs were shot and killed illegally in Granisle in northwest B.C.

B.C. grizzly bear expert Lana Ciareniello&nbsp;warned that losing female grizzlies has consequences.

"They are very, very slow reproducing, especially as you get into the Interior of the province and off the salmon streams," she said.&nbsp;

"We do not want to be losing or killing adult females."&nbsp;

The female grizzly, pictured here before relocaton in 2010, was taken out of Powell River and moved to a remote location. The animal was shot and killed six years later.

B.C. hunter ordered to donate $8,000 to wildlife foundation for killing grizzly with bow and arrow

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