Kodiak Bear Cuddle

Kodiak brown bears are considered a unique subspecies of the brown bear that have been geographically isolated for over 10,000 years on a group of large islands called the Kodiak Archipelago in Alaska.

🐻 In Romania, home to Europe’s largest brown bear population outside Russia, attacks are on the rise as the bears venture out of the forests looking for food, often brought by tourists or left in unsecured garbage cans. The problem is pitting herders and farmers against conservationists, with authorities dramatically upping the number of bears that can be culled this year by 50 percent to 220. And some MPs want that number doubled. Conservationists argue it is possible to better manage human-be