A frigid bear , looking exhausted and thirsty , has been spotted hundreds of stat mi aside from its home in Russia – and that ’s a very , very spoilt thing .
A young male frigid bear , dub Umka by topical anesthetic , was descry drift around the village of Tilichiki on the Kamchatka Peninsula in far - easterly Russia , Russian spiritualist outletKam 24reports . Polar bear are nearly never spotted here on the peninsula . Their nearest settled population is at least 700 kilometers ( 434 miles ) northward in the Chukotka autonomous region , so the sighting along the southernly peninsula is get warning signal bells to phone among environmentalists .
“ Due to clime change , the Arctic is getting warmer , [ so the ] hunt environment gets small and less commodious , ” Vladimir Chuprov of Greenpeace Russia toldThe Associated Press . “ The ice is fall back , and gelid bears expect for raw ways to come through . And the gentle way is coming to citizenry . ”
video posted on social media show the arctic bear rummage around the fringe of the township , on the face of it on the lookout for nutrient .
“ The bear looks drained and weak . For some reasonableness he does not get fish and seals , which we have plenty of , ” Svetlana Gubareva , deputy head of the Olyutorsky district of Kamchatka , toldKam 24 .
“ At first , the animal do quite actively . Locals filmed it on video , photographed it , and fed it fish . He did not feed very much , ” she summate .
It ’s conceive Umka reached the village after becoming lost on a drifting ice-skating rink floe along the east coast of Russia . As refer , the freak happening also points to a big problem : climate change .
We ’ve all see the photographs of starving polar bear pin down on shrinking iceberg lettuce , but clime change can have a profound force on the life of icy bears in a whole crowd of fashion . With warming temperature and melting ocean ice , the polar bear ’s natural habitat isbecoming deeply disturbed , often thrust the animate being to venture much further for food .
A dramatically clear example of this was recently seen inNovaya Zemlya , a Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean . A state of emergencywas declared after more than 50 polar bears invaded the town of Belushya Guba . Once again , the gelid bears landed themselves there because pull back ocean ice forces them to come further inland and disrupts their natural search figure . Faced with a want of food , they are also more likely to hazard into human settlements , where an easy repast can be pinched from rubbishdumps and scraps cans .
