Climate change, due to which the ice islands, the natural habitat of polar bears, are melting, threatens this species with extinction.
A woman and a child were killed Tuesday when they were attacked by a polar bear in an isolated community on Alaska’s west coast, an extremely rare occurrence.
According to the initial investigation, the bear entered Wales, a coastal aboriginal village in the Bering Strait, and “chased several residents,” police said. “He attacked and killed a woman and a boy” and was then killed by a local resident.
A polar bear has attacked and killed two people in a remote village in western Alaska, according to state troopers. The bear was shot and killed by a local resident as it attacked the pair, troopers said. https://t.co/APZ6byNYdi
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 18, 2023
Officers and specialists will be on the scene “weather permitting,” state police added in a statement.
The Anchorage daily news, Alaska’s largest newspaper, reported that the last fatal polar bear attack in the state was in 1990. According to the non-governmental organization Polar bear international, between 1870-2014 there have been a total of 73 attacks and fatalities 20 people. However, the frequency of attacks is increasing.
In Alaska, polar bears live exclusively on the far north and west coasts of the State.
Climate change, due to which the ice islands, the natural habitat of polar bears, are melting, threatens this species with extinction.
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