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Conservationists say climate change could be to blame, with weak coastal ice forcing the bears to search for food in the village rather than at sea. Other experts have said polar bear visits are now so frequent, Ryrkaypiy should be permanently evacuated. Tatyana Minenko, head of Ryrkaypiy's bear patrol programme, told Ria Novosti that they had counted 56 polar bears in the village.

The animals were "both adult and young The polar bears normally live on Cape Schmidt, just 2. WWF conservationist Mikhail Stishov said the area had been experiencing unusually warm weather.

While waiting for the ice to freeze they are drawn to villages for food, Mr Stishov added. Endangered Status. Our Impact. Our Team. Polar Bear Tracker. Just for Kids. Polar Bear Cams.

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The incident follows a similar polar bear invasion earlier this year, when authorities in the remote region of Novaya Zemlya were forced to declare a state of emergency when hungry polar bears entered several villages. So far there are no accidents. But bears are potentially dangerous and when they are hungry they are potentially aggressive.

Videos uncovered by The Guardian that purport to show the bear invasion show them chowing down at the local dump. To be clear, polar bear attacks on people have historically been fairly rare, says Geoff York , senior director of conservation at the nonprofit Polar Bears International.

But the worry is that when bears and people live close together, the risk of conflict increases. For these polar bears, other sources of food are hard to come by right now. To hunt seals, polar bears need sea ice.

Polar bear invasion on Novaya Zemlya as 50 wild animals besiege remote town, and chase people. That is, of course, until the bears learn bad habits that put them in conflict with humans, like strolling into homes.

Kochnev says that getting rid of all the trash in the towns on Novaya Zemlya will be key. Churchill is a popular polar bear stomping ground, and in the mids, the town closed the local dump and shut the trash away in a warehouse that became known as the Alcatraz of garbage. In the short term, even fencing off the Russian dump with an electric fence could help, says Clark.