A polar bear chased several residents around a tiny, isolated Alaska Native whaling village, killing a mother and her 1-year-old son in an extremely rare attack before another community member shot and killed the bear, authorities said.
chased several residents around a tiny, isolated Alaska Native whaling village, killing a mother and her 1-year-old son in an extremely rare attack before another community member shot and killed theThe fatal mauling happened Tuesday in Wales, an isolated Bering Strait coastal community located on the western-most tip of the North American mainland - about 50 miles from Russia - that is no stranger to co-existing with polarSummer Myomick of Saint Michael and her son, Clyde Ongtowasruk, were...
Like many far-flung Alaskan villages, the predominantly Inupiaq community of roughly 150 people organizes patrols when thes head out on the frozen landscape to hunt seals.s are normally far out on the ice in the dead of winter and not close to villages, said Geoff York, the senior director of conservation at Polarencounter in Alaska was in 1990.
“I would have been walking around the community of Wales probably without any deterrents because it's historically the time of year that's safe,” said York, who has decades of experience studying polars because they'd be out on the sea ice hunting seals and doing their thing.
She said there have been no announcements for memorials for the two victims. “Nothing as of yet,” she said. “We are still in the beginning phase.” It's unclear if this attack was related to climate change, but it's consistent with what is expected as the Arctic continues to warm at four times the rest of the Earth, changing the ecosystem in ways that are still not fully understood, York said. However, this particularis a member of a population that is doing fairly well, said Andrew Derocher, a professor of biological sciences at University of Alberta and an expert on polarAlaska scientists at the U.S.
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