TOKYO, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) — Japan’s surroundings ministry has introduced that it plans to supply emergency help to native governments over the latest surge in bear assaults on folks.
The help will likely be supplied primarily to the northern prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate and Akita, the place such incidents have occurred continuously, to cowl bear habitat surveys and subsidize the price of implementing security measures, the ministry informed a press convention Tuesday.
According to the ministry, the variety of folks attacked by bears has been growing at an unprecedented tempo this fiscal yr by means of subsequent March, reaching 109 as of the tip of September.
Calling the spike within the look of bears “an extraordinary situation,” the ministry warned that because of the poor acorn crops this yr, bears might wander close to human residential homes till round December, when the animals go into hibernation.