“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 […]
Tag: Black Bear
Sharp rise in bear attacks in Japan as they struggle to find food
Experts in Japan have warned that bear attacks are rising at an unprecedented rate, as the animals struggle to find food in their natural habitat. Bears have caused at least 158 injuries and two deaths since April, equalling the record set in 2020, according to media reports. Most of the attacks occurred in the northern […]
Man learns the hard way why you never, ever pet bear cubs
A man has shared a video online showing exactly why you never try to pet wild animals, particularly bears. The US National Park Service advises visitors that the safest place to watch wildlife is from within a car, but that only applies if you also use common sense. The clip (which you can see below) […]
Brave husband successfully fights off bear attacking 73-year-old wife in park
An elderly woman was hospitalised after she was attacked by a bear. The 73-year-old woman was with her husband and a dog in the Flathead National Forest, west of Glacier National Park and just south of the US-Canadian border on Sunday afternoon, when a bear emerged from thick brush and attacked her, Montana wildlife officials […]
Recent Research Shows That Bears Could be the Smartest Animals
Bears are known for their strength, solitude, and adaptability, but recent research has uncovered a surprising dimension to their capabilities: tool use, according to reporting done by Newsweek. One of the most remarkable findings in this regard is a polar bear using a block of ice to hunt seals—an action that typically remains the domain […]
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 […]
Petition: Urge Alaska to Adopt Ethical Wildlife Management Practices
The Alaska Board of Game has extended it’s predator control program, resulting in the murder of numerous bears and wolves — 94 brown bears, five black bears, and five wolves — in just May and June. These actions, meant to boost caribou calf survival, lack scientific evidence and severely disrupt Alaska’s ecosystems by slaughtering innocent […]
Distressed bear cub rescued after its head was trapped in a plastic container
Pennsylvania Park Manager Sarah Lindgren is no stranger to wildlife, so when she saw a bear cub in distress, she knew exactly what to do. Lindgren was driving through Cross Fork, a small village in northern Pennsylvania on Sunday, when she spotted a young bear on the side of the road with a plastic container […]