Contributor: We Know How to Coexist with Bears and Wolves. Will We Kill Them Instead?

Contributor: We know how to coexist with bears and wolves. Will we kill them instead?

Examples of predators affecting humans are extremely rare, but they cloud our priorities. Nonlethal methods against wolves receive only 1% of the management budget.

Japan steps up bear safety measures after recent attacks

In response to bear attacks across Japan, police and local hunters in Tochigi Prefecture held a training exercise to simulate a bear deterrence operation.

Japan Declares Brown Bear Emergency After Fatal Attacks

OutdoorHub Japan Declares Brown Bear Emergency After Spike in Attacks Japan Declares First-Ever Brown Bear Emergency: A Hunter Missing, Wildlife Policy Shifts Japan has declared its first-ever “brown bear emergency,” and no, this isn’t lost in translation. In Hokkaido’s rural Fukushima region, local officials issued a month-long alert following a string of serious bear encounters. On July 12, a veteran hunter in his 50s disappeared in the mounta…