, forcing the bears to spend more time on land, the number of encounters between people and bears is on the rise, researchers say. Raising awareness and improving ways to keep both bears and people safe has become imperative.
Another Hudson Bay town — Churchill, in northeastern Manitoba — has had a bear alert program for decades and has turned the animals into a tourist attraction. There, wildlife agents and police patrol by helicopter and by ground to protect trick-or-treaters on Halloween. Problem bears are captured and kept in an air-conditioned “bear jail” until the ice freezes up and they can be transported out to where they can find natural prey such as seals.
The North Slope has patrols on standby in case bears come close; three villages have active patrols now, Hepa said.In Kaktovik in 2014, a patroller shooed away a polar bear that had gotten into the entryway of an 81-year-old woman’s home, where it was feeding on a drum of seal oil. The woman had hidden inside and was unharmed.
Wales began a polar bear patrol in 2014 with the help of the World Wildlife Fund, which has supported the creation of several such programs in far northern communities across the globe. But the local program became inactive due to a confluence of factors — including the COVID-19 pandemic, the relative lack of bears and the recent death of its leader, Clyde Oxereok.
While the attack is terrible and gut-wrenching for that family, at this point, one polar bear life is worth 1,000,000 human lives. I'd like to see polar bears continue to exist, even recover, personally.
This is fake we know they are extinct
Or not living near them is another option
Let the bears pay the bear tax, I already pay the homer tax.
I thought you told us years ago polar bears were disappearing?
So you’re saying they are migrating and the solution is to shoo them off? 🤔
I thought they were nearly extinct. Why aren't they allowed to live in town so nothing happens to them? So mean.
The vanishing ice cap is forcing Polar Bears further inland for food.
All of which you'd call racist if they were doing it to bears of color.
Correction. Advancing the power of media enable message control, globaly.
Could try pleading with them, It's worked well for our border defense.
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Simpsons did it
I just kick their ass once and the never return. Racist damn bears!
I thought the polar bears were going extinct due to climate change
Ban assault polar bears
Slapping hungry bears, with beanbags, doesn't sound like a good idea.
What, exactly, would these polar bears patrol?
How about not encroaching on what little habitat they have left. Let's try that for once.
A polar bear attack that killed a mother and her 1-year-old son in far western Alaska this week has underscored the risks of living alongside the world's largest land carnivores.