The effort to locate the bear that attacked a school group near Bella Coola, B.C., last Friday is on. What happens after that is still in question.

Bear encounters are not rare in Canada, especially on British Columbia’s Central Coast. However, attacks like the one last week that involve large groups are, according to conservation experts CBC News spoke to.

But there's still discussion and debate about what could or should happen to the bears involved if they're found and definitively linked to the incident.

HOW DO THEY FIND THE BEAR?

There are about 13,000 grizzlies living in B.C., many of them in the central coast region.

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The area near 4 Mile subdivision on the traditional territories of the Nuxalk Nation where last Friday'

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