Hunter missing in Japan as spate of bear attacks triggers emergency to be declared in northern town | Japan
Authorities in Japan are looking for a hunter in a mountain in Hokkaido, where a brown bear has recently been identified in the middle of the deadly attacks of animals that trigger the declaration of a bear emergency in a town.
Avcı, after returning home Tuesday afternoon Hokkaido’nun northern island of MT Esan was reported to be missing by a friend. A rifle was found on the edge of a mountain road, which was believed to belong to the lost man, and blood stains were discovered nearby. A large bear was seen near the road on Saturday.
Again on Saturday, a newspaper delivery man was shaped in a deadly manner in the town of Fukushima, about 120km away.
The 52 -year -old Kenju Sato was bitten by a bear and was dragged into about 100 meters of shrubs, where his body was found a few hours later. The neighbors who heard their screams tried to scare the creature.
Local authorities, the brown bear emergency for the town for the first time, the species for the first time, police, firefighters and hunters who have announced the patrols 24 hours a day. The bear in Fukushima was reported to be about 1.5 meters long, Mt. Esan is smaller than the detected around it.
This month, a large number of bear attacks on the main island of Japan were also reported.
A 81 -year -old woman was killed by a black month in the Iwate Province in Northeast Japan on July 4, two old women were attacked on Tuesday morning, one in the North Aomori province, the other was close to the old capital of Nara, hundreds of kilometers.
Experts have attributed the increase in the attacks in recent years to the famine of the acorn of the Ursine diet and other staples – a problem in which some experts are attributed to the climate crisis. It was also encouraged to travel further with depopulation in rural communities and an increase in abandoned agricultural land.
After 219 injuries and death records in the previous financial year, serious events fell sharply until 2025 a year, probably because the foods were more than the previous years.
However, a recent report of the Regional Forest Office, which covers the five northern provinces of Tohoku, envisaged a beech harvesting, a staple -bear food harvest in this autumn, raising the fear that hunger would be drawn to more residential areas.
Authorities invite residents in the region not to throw food wastes out of their homes to avoid pulling creatures.
Hokkaido’s ussuri brown bears can grow up to 3 meters and exceed 500kg. Asian black bears in Japan are rarely greater than 1.5 meters and 150kg, but they can still kill people.
In response to the increasing number of bear encounters in the settlement areas, the government in April allowed municipalities to give the authority to “emergency shootings” if there is a threat to human life by loosening strict hunting laws to allow the bears to be shot in urban areas.
