Follow-up: Russia Sets a Cull Quota of Up to 30 Percent in Each Region After Bear Attacks Kill 36 People This Year, With 87 Attacks, More Than 12,000 Approach Reports and a Brown Bear Population of 308,000
The Russian government has established a cull of up to 30 percent of brown bear populations in each region to keep numbers in check after bear attacks killed 36 people this year, the Ministry of Natural Resources was quoted as saying on Friday, in a Reuters report citing the state RIA news agency.
A ministry statement quoted by RIA said the limit sought to better control bear populations and reduce the number of attacks and was already registered with Russia Justice Ministry.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 12,000 reports have been received in Russia about brown bears approaching people, there have been 87 attacks, with 36 people killed, RIA quoted the ministry as saying.
The RIA report gave no indication when the cull was to begin or how long it was to remain in effect.
The ministry put Russia bear population at 308,000 and said culling quotas varied from region to region, including 14 percent on Kamchatka and 19 percent in western Siberia Krasnoyarsk region, allocated funds totalling more than the equivalent of 970,000 dollars to finance the cull of bears known to approach people and feed at landfills, put the death figure at one more than reported earlier this week by RIA following the killing of a security guard at a holiday camp in the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, and government data cited in the report say the brown bear population has more than doubled in the last three decades, in part due to shorter and milder winters.
Source: Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia
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Photo: 图：俄罗斯堪察加半岛的一头棕熊站在河中（资料图）。Robert F. Tobler，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: A brown bear standing in a river on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula (file photo). By Robert F. Tobler, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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