Dozens of polar bears have crowded a village in Russia's far east in search for food, forcing public events to be canceled and humans to shelter inside.
About 60 polar bears descended on Ryrkaypiy in Russia's remote Chukotka region, Tatyana Minenko, the head of the village's"bear patrol" told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.The polar bears are eating the carcasses of walruses that have remained on the village's shores since the fall, the Russian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature said Thursday in a statement. "Almost all of the bears are thin," said Minenko in the WWF statement.
"Bear patrols stepped up Volunteers and residents have started patrolling the area around the village, including schools and kindergartens, to avoid encounters with the unexpected guests, WWF said. All public events have been canceled and children are being transported to school in buses.
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