The BBC has got the particulars:
A polar bear has mauled a 17-year-old British boy to dying within the Arctic and hurt four other United kingdom vacationers.There's some question regarding the safety of these expeditions generally. The Brand New You are able to Times' Andy Revkin tweeted that "Svalbard bears [are] notoriously deadly. Room with this type of trek.Horatio Chapple, from Wiltshire, was with 12 others on the British Schools Exploring Society trip near a glacier about the Norwegian island of Svalbard.
The 4 who have been hurt - two seriously - incorporated two leaders from the trip. They've been flown to Tromsoe in Norwegian where their condition is stable.
However the BBC's Matt Master also notes in the research into the news that this kind of attack might have implications beyond vacation-planning: "Polar bears are, together with the grizzly bears of Kodiak Island, Alaska, the biggest living potential predators on land. They're also regarded as among the couple of wild species which will positively search humans.
However, the opportunity to achieve this happens rarely, because of the ultimate isolation of the Arctic habitat ... As global warming reduces ice cover, you will find concerns more polar bears will end up displaced and can move further inland to find food, getting them into connection with more and more people.Inch
Not too we needed one more reason to get our efforts in addressing global warming, but there you have it.
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