MOSCOW — Residents of a village in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula were stunned by the sight of a polar bear prowling for food hundreds of miles from its usual habitat. Russian media reported Wednesday that the exhausted-looking animal apparently travelled from Chukotka to the village of Tilichiki on Kamchatka, some 700 kilometres south. “The ice is receding, and polar bears look for new ways to survive. And the easiest way is coming to people.”Locals were making the bear feel welcome, giving it fish, media reported. Polar bears’ dependence on sea ice makes them highly vulnerable to global warming.

Source: National Post April 17, 2019 19:52 UTC