Zaranthos jwnm said: In America we have the best deterrence they are called hunters. We also have a growing predator problem as we protect once endangered or at risk species along with repopulating them closer to human areas. As a kid I played day and night in the forests of rural Minnesota with no fears of wolves, bears, coyote, etc. That has changed now as bears roam near humans, even having bear problems in towns where they get into garbage. Big cats are also repopulating closer to humans. Even armed things don't go well for people who are surprised or surprise a big predator, especially if they have cubs. Even a well trained hunter often can't react fast enough to protect themselves against a surprise predator attack. Reply
Findecanor The root cause of the problem has been programs that have caused hunters to kill more deer and bore for bounty instead of for the meat. So, some irresponsible hunters have used snares and traps to catch more animals. Often they have after killing an animal just cut off the tail for the bounty and left the carcass to rot. Japanese black bears don't typically hunt, but are opportunists. So, when they come across a carcass, or a helpless trapped animal, they help themselves. This has made some of them accustomed to eating meat, killing for meat and to associating the smell of humans with that food. Areas without hunting and trapping for bounties have not had any recorded cases of bears hunting humans. But yes, there are other factors: Rising bear population previous years but last year being a bad year for bear's natural food sources, wild bores migrating into bear country competing for the same plants, natural forests being replaced with "tree plantations" with less plant variety, fewer humans in the countryside to scare bears away, and fewer hunters. Reply
Tanakoi Findecanor said: The root cause of the problem has been programs that have caused hunters to kill more deer and bore for bounty instead of for the meat … Areas without hunting and trapping for bounties have not had any recorded cases of bears hunting humans. Actually, the root cause is simple: 1. Bear populations in Japan have surged in the last decade from 15K total to over 54K 2. Bear hunting has sharply declined in the last 20 years. This is mathematical biology 101: bears are apex predators, and without humans to restrict them, their population is now at the upper end of the logistics curve. Bears don't roam central Tokyo. They're in rural, mountainous regions … and ALL those regions have bounty programs. Your statement is like claiming chlorinated drinking water causes AIDS, because AIDS is most prevalent in big cities that require such water. Every boar and deer alive in Japan today will eventually die and leave a carcass somewhere, if from nothing else but old age. The idea that bounty programs are the only way that bear would ever find a carcass to eat is just nonsensical. Reply
Notton jwnm said: In America we have the best deterrence they are called hunters. They have hunters in Japan too, but there aren't enough compared to the amount of bears. The reward for hunting bears is dismal, acquiring a hunting license and hunting rifle is not easy, you can easily lose your license, and the hunter population themselves are getting old. Where as in America, you have 3 guns per person, and extremely lax laws with guns and hunting. For instance, a town/city won't even pay hunters $80 a day as a reward for tracking down, capturing, and euthanizing a single bear. IDK if you've walked through a forest before, but it's not easy when the path isn't manicured. Doing that for 8hrs+ a day for $80 just isn't worth it, especially when bears are one of the more challenging animals to hunt. There isn't much of a market for bear parts either, as there are very strict export laws for that. Reply
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