Article 48WB3 Russian islands declare emergency after mass invasion of polar bears

Russian islands declare emergency after mass invasion of polar bears

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Marc Bennetts in Moscow
from Environment | The Guardian on (#48WB3)

Experts deployed to remove dozens of hungry bears besieging Novaya Zemlya

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Russian environmental authorities have deployed a team of specialists to a remote Arctic region to sedate and remove dozens of hungry polar bears that have besieged the people living there.

The move came after officials in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, with a population of about 3,000 people, appealed for help.

"There's never been such a mass invasion of polar bears," said Zhigansha Musin, the head of the local administration. "They have literally been chasing people."

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