By Stew Kernan

A group of northern New Democrat M-P-P’s have set up a website to help get a sense of how widespread the nuisance bear problem is.

You can go to www.northernbearreport.com and report bear sightings and leave video evidence.

Nickel Belt M-P-P France Gelinas says the goal is to convince the government to take a proactive approach to the problem.

She says the Ministry of Natural Resources can’t be blamed because they are doing what they can with a limited staff.

Gelinas says there have been more 60 reports to the site in the last two weeks which shows that bear encounters are vastly under-reported in the North.