Animals|The bear has moved mainly at night and seems to avoid people. Only few sightings of the animal are known.
Loviisa observations of a bear moving around yards in the region and knocking over garbage cans have come to the attention of the police, the Itä-Uusimaa police announced on Friday.
The bear has moved mainly at night and seems to avoid people. Only few sightings of the animal are known.
“There hasn’t been an observation where a bear has encountered a person, for example, on a cottage road or started following a person. At most, the bear has been seen in the yard of the cottage at night scavenging for garbage, when there have been no people in the yard,” chief inspector Jussi Huhtela He tells HS about the police in East Uusimaa.
Finnish Game Centre and the Itä-Uusimaa police are closely monitoring the bear’s movements, the police state in the release.
The Finnish Game Center has granted an exclusion permit for bears in the area.
Bear has moved mainly around the corners of summer cottages, not really in urban areas, Huhtela states. According to Huhtela, the first observations came in early summer.
“Observations have been made of it in a fairly wide area in the Loviisa area.”
In the announcement, Huhtela calls for people to report a bear that has appeared in the yard to the local wildlife contact person. The contact information of the contact person can be found on the website of the Finnish Game Agency.
“If a large animal does not leave the place after seeing a person or a fearless large animal approaches a person, the general emergency number 112 should be reported. If necessary, the assessment of the matter will be continued in cooperation with the police,” Huhtela states in the announcement.
Best the way to prevent a bear from entering the yard is to remove food that attracts bears from the yard, the release states.
The bear has an excellent sense of smell, which allows it to find food quite easily even near human settlements.
Food waste that attracts bears should not be placed in mixed waste containers. Bears should also not get used to unnecessary human presence by approaching animals or feeding them, for example, for photography in the vicinity of settlements, the release states.
Last In the past, Finns have had frequent encounters with large carnivores in urban areas. For example, bear sightings have been made almost daily in the Joensuu region, Over said earlier this week.
Research Professor Emeritus Ilpo Kojola estimated earlier this week for STT that bears are increasingly accustomed to moving around human settlements and urban areas, for example scavenging for garbage. Kojola works as a visiting expert of the Finnish Natural Resources Agency.
According to Kojola, this has been influenced by the recent low bear hunting outside the reindeer herding areas. In the bear forest, it is often young individuals that are most likely to venture into the company of humans.
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