Polar bear attacks Canadian radar station
2024-08-15
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According to the BBC report on the 14th, a polar bear attack and death occurred at an Arctic radar station in Nunavut, northern Canada on the 8th.According to reports, two polar bears broke into the radar station and attacked a field worker, killing him. The deceased was employed by a company that operates the radar station on behalf of the Canadian government. The company said in a statement that when the attack occurred, other employees on the site fought back against the polar bears and killed one of them. The local government and the company are jointly investigating the incident.There are currently about 17,000 polar bears in Canada, accounting for about two-thirds of the world's total number of polar bears. As climate warming causes the melting of Arctic ice, the hunting and breeding areas of polar bears are shrinking, leading to a continuous decrease in their numbers.Polar bear attacks on humans are extremely rare, but there have been at least two documented fatalities by polar bears since 2023. In addition to the latest incident at the Canadian radar station, a polar bear attack occurred in a remote village in Alaska, USA last year, killing a woman and her 1-year-old baby.A 2017 study published in the Journal of the American Wildlife Society stated that polar bears that are "malnourished" or in "poor physical condition" are more likely to attack humans.The relevant data compiled in the report show that between 1870 and 2014, 73 polar bear attacks were recorded in Arctic countries such as the United States, Canada, Russia, Norway and Denmark, resulting in a total of 20 deaths. (Zhen Xiang)▲
