In Japan's mountains, a different way to manage bears
Authorities say tag-and-release and other deterrents are helping reduce dangerous encounters as Nagano doubles its annual bear cull cap to 675.
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In Japan's mountains, a different way to manage bears
"It's a small bear, I think, about a year and a half old," Takii said as she peered at the 15-kilogram (33-pound) Asiatic black bear thrashing in the cage. "It must have just parted from mum." Its mother wasn't around, and Takii took blood and fur samples after her co-researcher tranquilised the young female. The animal was too small to be tagged with a GPS tracker, so she was released. The process of trapping, tagging and releasing the animals …
An alternative to mass slaughter, a bear surveillance and prevention program has been set up on Honshu, the main island of Japan. Essential, as the plantigrades are getting closer and closer to the cities and the inhabitants leave the countryside and are no longer as involved as before in the problems of the forest.
"She has probably just left her mother," she says after looking at the Asian black bear of 15kg, whose age she estimates to be a year and a half.After making sure that the mother is not around and once the bear has arrived...
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