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Attacking the wander Wild brown bear Officials said he was found dead in northern Japan on Friday, after a day of the bloody meeting that was said to have seen him leading to a forest.

In his twenties tried to fight the large animal, but he was withdrawn to the nearby forests with his legs heavily bleeding, local media, including Yomiuri Shimbun NewsPapePBUH said.

A local police spokesman told AFP that the man was attacked while walking on a path on Mount Roso on the Northern island of Hokkaido on Thursday morning.

On Friday afternoon, he was found and transferred to the hospital, where he officially announced his death, according to a government official in Hokkaido.

The fishermen also caught and killed a bear near the corridor, an official working for Shari Town – where there is the mountain – for Agence France Presse.

DNA analysis will be performed to determine whether the bear is responsible for the death of the victim.

A wallet containing a card bearing the name of the man was found near the meeting place in the northeastern part of Hokkaido, according to the media.

Kyodo News Agency said that it was also found on Friday, a torn and blood -filled shirt believed to have been found on Friday, with trees and soils adjacent to traces of blood.

Kyodo said that among the other elements discovered was an hour and a hat and what appears to be tear gas.

Hokkaido’s brown bears decreased on an annual basis in 2023 for the first time since 1991, according to estimates issued this month.

There were about 11,600 at the end of 2023, a decrease of 500 from the previous year.

Hokkaido government was killed by an unprecedented hunting of brown bears, with a record of 1804 caught in 12 months until March 2024.

Human meetings with bears reached record levels in Japan last year, where 219 people were attacked and six deaths in 12 months until April 2024.

Climate change that affects food sources and hibernation times is a major factor, but as the population shrinks in Japan, humans leave rural areas, and this also leaves a room for bears to move.

“After that, that area recovered to the woods, so the bears have an opportunity to expand its scope,” “Biologist Koji Yamazaki, from Tokyo University of Agriculture, CBS News saidElizabeth Palmer in 2023.

Japan is one of the only places on the planet where the types of large mammals were returning habitats – good news of the bears, but, as biologists suspect, the population of bear grow, the country will have to discover new ways to protect people, and vital infrastructure such as airports, from animals.

In February, the Japanese government approved a bill that allows fishermen to shoot bears in populated areas.

In December, a Take this stagnation Through a two -day Japanese supermarket, it was seduced with honey -painted food. The police said the animal was besieged and was later killed.

In 2023, the fishermen killed a long -standing brown bear, nicknamed “Ninja” at Hokkaido after he attacked at least 66 cows, Associated Press I mentioned. In the same year, local Japanese officials reported that three bears were disposed of yet Influence to the Tatami Mattle Factory In the northern part of the country.