Sweden is currently allowing the slaughter of 486 wild brown bears, which constitutes a shocking 20% of the country’s remaining population. This practice, which has already seen more than 150 bears killed in just the opening days, is nothing short of a brutal massacre and poses a severe threat to the survival of the entire […]
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Watch out hikers – bears are fattening up for winter
With warm weather ongoing and Labor Day still weeks away, you might not be thinking about incoming fall yet – but your local bears are. Wildlife officials in Montana have issued a warning to campers and hikers to expect increased bear activity now through November as the state’s bruins ready themselves for winter torpor. The […]
“Fleeing in panic” from charging bear, diabetic hiker spends night lost in the backcountry
A diabetic hiker who spent the night in Colorado’s backcountry and nearly ran out of life-saving medication says she panicked when she was charged by a bear and became lost. According to Alamosa Volunteer Search And Rescue, the out-of-state woman was hiking at Zapata Falls in the San Luis Valley on August 12 with a […]
Climate Change Is Pushing Polar Bear Populations Into Conflict With Humans, Scientists Say
Deep in Canada’s remote Brevoort Island, in the Nunavut territory, a radar technician was killed last week in a rare polar bear attack. Days earlier, a polar bear was spotted in Rankin Inlet, a remote, but fairly populated, Inuit settlement in the same territory. Experts warn that similar encounters with polar bears will likely become […]
Why do sloth bears attack humans? New study links behaviour to tiger defence mechanisms
Ponder the most dangerous bear in the world, and you might naturally think of the mighty polar bear – king of the Arctic and most carnivorous of ursids – or the big and ornery North American grizzly. But the species that actually mauls the most people on average each year? The smaller, galumphing, and far […]
Swedish Annual Hunt to Kill 20% of its Brown Bears
Sweden has recently authorized the culling of nearly 500 brown bears, representing approximately 20% of the country’s total bear population, as part of its annual bear hunt. This decision has sparked significant concern among conservationists who fear the impact on Europe’s large predator populations. Once on the brink of extinction in the 1920s, Sweden’s brown […]
Bear Breaks into California Classroom in Search of Snacks!
A California school teacher returned to her classroom to find an unexpected visitor—a bear rummaging for food. The bear had broken into the classroom at Peak to Peak Charter School in Pine Mountain Club, a small town located about 90 miles north of Los Angeles. The bear’s target? Granola bars stored in the classroom’s emergency […]
Watch crazy beachgoer chase cookie-thieving bear with a shovel
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! Or at the beach. Or anywhere else. Trying to scare off a bear with a shovel is a potentially terminal idea, no matter how many cookies the bear has stolen. But it certainly makes for a video you can’t peel your eyes away from. The confrontation took place earlier […]