China News Service, October 25. According to "Central News Agency", according to statistics compiled by the Japan Broadcasting Association, Japan will have frequent "bears" in 2020. From September to the present, there are at least 63 people in the country. He was attacked by a bear and was injured. Two of them died.
Data Map: Black Bear.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Luo Yunpeng
According to reports, in Niigata Prefecture, 13 people were injured by bear attacks in the past two months. The number is the largest. Other places with more injuries include Ishikawa Prefecture (11), Iwate Prefecture (9), and Fukui Prefecture (8). )Wait.
If calculated from April 2020, there have been 123 people injured in bear attacks in Japan so far, which is significantly more than 53 people in 2018 but less than 157 people in 2019.
In addition, excluding Hokkaido, there were at least 4,097 pieces of "bear-infested" information across Japan in the past two months.
If compared with 2019, the number of "bear-infested" information in September alone will be 2,471 in 2020, 312 more than in 2019.
Koji Yamazaki, a professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture who is familiar with bear ecology, said that the reason for the frequent occurrence of bears this year is that there is insufficient food in the mountains in some areas, and bears come to places where people live in order to find food.
Yamazaki said that with the aging of the population and the increasing sparseness of housing density, places originally used by humans will gradually return to the forest. This situation will also increase the area for bears to inhabit.
Yamazaki said that bears may be moved by means of irrigation waterways. It is important to cut trees and install electric fences in various places to prevent bears from entering the city.
People can also ask government departments to take measures to separate bears from human settlements.