Posted on 02/09/2019 2:30:29 PM PST by EdnaMode
A remote Russian region has declared a state of emergency over the appearance of dozens of polar bears in its human settlements, local officials say.
Authorities in the Novaya Zemlya islands, home to a few thousand people, said there were cases of bears attacking people and entering residential and public buildings.
Polar bears are affected by climate change and are increasingly forced on to land to look for food.
Russia classes them as endangered.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Yup, saw the BBC’s mandatory ref to “climate change”.
As if they had a clue.
Just throw that in there without doing a smidgeon of studying to find out what the REAL cause might be.
Just don’t build walls around your villages.
Sounds like they need to build a wall. Around the island.
Measures that reduce the likelihood of an attack on a person:
If you are faced with a polar bear, do not try to immediately take flight. Like any large predatory beast, a bear can have a reflexive instinct of pursuit. Experience shows: in this case, you should try not to move and stay for some time in one place, or start slowly and without fuss.
It should always be remembered that the closer you come to a bear, the more unpredictable is the behavior of the beast, although it may seem that it does not pay attention to you (the bear does not behave aggressively until it is over-excited by the nervous system). Even being at a distance of several hundred meters from the beast, it is better not to attract his attention and not try to come closer. The bear sneaks up to the victim, usually from the leeward side, but sometimes it chooses the path in accordance with the terrain relief.
For scaring you can use wheeled and tracked vehicles or a helicopter. Many bears simply ignore shots (sounds). Sometimes they scare away or at least distract the bear from the human dog.
Wherever possible, people’s permanent places should be illuminated at night and in the polar night. With poor visibility, it is desirable to move together or in a group at some distance from each other. On the way, regularly inspect the area around you. Pay special attention to moving objects. Seeing the bear try to get away from it unnoticed, or wait until it retires.
If the bear attacked you, fall to the ground, press your head against your knees, cover it with your hands and do not move. In this case, there is less risk of death or serious injury.
Right. It could not possibly be that the bears see easy pickings like the local garbage dump ... no bears never go near such places as it would offend their sensibilities no end.
People have mostly stopped hunting them for 50 years.
Now, there are a lot more of them.
Surprise, Surprise!!
But but I thought they were endangered. What a dope.
back in the old days - 1960’s - the the state parks of Northern Michigan had open dumps where the trash was thrown.
People would drive down to the dumps and park their cars up to the tree line when it was getting close to dark. People would sit quietly in their cars and bears would walk past the cars onto the dump pile of trash. When it was full dark people would turn on their headlights and the people would sit there and watch the bears dig through the trash.
Grandparents took me camping a lot then and I watched the bears many a time.
All bears go where the food is.
There are so many of them that they have to expand their hunting from the crowded ice packs to the land.
Grizzlies used to avoid humans when they were hunted . Now they’re attracted to gunfire because they can cleanup the gut spills left by hunters. Protecting predators enboldens them. That’s probably happened to the Russian polar bears.
There is no other possible explanation.
There is no other possible explanation.
Lots of bears and a ready food source . Put up walls and either shoot or relocate the critters.
.470 Marlin oughta do the job.
Is climate change “destroying” their habitat, or are they thriving and adapting in a changing habititat, increasing in numbers and, due to increased competition for food, encroaching on human settlements?
ROFL!
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