Strobe lights, AI, shotguns: can anything help Canada’s polar bears and humans coexist?

Strobe lights, AI, shotguns: can anything help Canada’s polar bears and humans coexist?

“It’s pretty easy to know when there’s a bear in your community – you hear the shots going off,” says Churchill’s mayor, Mike Spence. “That’s the conservationists’ patrols – they use a 12-gauge shotgun with a noise-banger cartridge on it as a deterrent. The sound also means our people know there’s a bear in the […]

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Endangered Formosan black bears caught in Taiwanese ‘snaring crisis’ (commentary)

Endangered Formosan black bears caught in Taiwanese ‘snaring crisis’ (commentary)

In 2020 a report titled “Wildlife-snaring crisis in Asian Forests” was published by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), estimating that over 12 million snares engulf Indochinese forests (Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam) alone, mostly in ‘protected’ areas. By contrast, it is difficult to know how many snares blanket Taiwan’s mountainous forests, but it is safe […]

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