Fresh Fears For Alaska's Bears
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:29 pm
ALASKA -- The mighty Alaskan Kodiak bear is the world's largest land carnivore.
It makes up part of a unique brown bear population in Alaska of 35,000. Alaska holds 98% of the brown bears left in America.
They've survived in this wilderness whilst in other parts of the world the species has been wiped out by hunting, poaching and the erosion of their habitat.
Mitch Demientieff is a native Athabascan. Swarmed by mosquitoes, we creep through thick undergrowth in the forest in the interior of Alaska.
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It makes up part of a unique brown bear population in Alaska of 35,000. Alaska holds 98% of the brown bears left in America.
They've survived in this wilderness whilst in other parts of the world the species has been wiped out by hunting, poaching and the erosion of their habitat.
Mitch Demientieff is a native Athabascan. Swarmed by mosquitoes, we creep through thick undergrowth in the forest in the interior of Alaska.
More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3553324.stm