{"id":1809898,"date":"2023-01-18T15:49:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T20:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1809898"},"modified":"2023-01-18T15:55:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T20:55:20","slug":"polar-bear-attacks-kills-woman-and-boy-in-alaska-before-being-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/polar-bear-attacks-kills-woman-and-boy-in-alaska-before-being-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar Bear Attacks, Kills Woman And Boy In Alaska Before Being Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolar-bear-attacks-kills-woman-and-boy-in-alaska-before-being-shot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1809898&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"p1\">A polar bear <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/animal-attacks-alaska-wales-bears-polar-71ff4cefef1fafc21152fa2567b5758c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacked<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/18\/us\/polar-bear-attack-alaska.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed<\/a> A boy and a girl were found in an Alaskan village isolated on Tuesday, before they were shot and killed by a local.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The attack took place in Wales (Alaska), which has about 170 residents according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/data.census.gov\/all?q=wales,+alaska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020 Census<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a press <a href=\"https:\/\/dailydispatch.dps.alaska.gov\/Home\/DisplayIncident?incidentNumber=AK23005442\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release<\/a>Alaska State Troopers reported that they received a report on a polar bear attack at the village. Early reports showed that the polar Bear had entered the area. \u201cchased multiple residents,\u201d According to the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe bear fatally attacked an adult female and juvenile male \u2013 it was shot and killed by a local resident as it attacked the pair,\u201d The release also noted that it included: \u201c[n]ext of kin notifications are still in progress.\u201d Staff from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and troopers are ready to travel to Wales when it is possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Joseph Jessup McDermott, the executive director of the\u00a0Alaska Nannut Co-Management Council,\u00a0(ANCC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/alaska-news\/rural-alaska\/2023\/01\/17\/polar-bear-fatally-mauls-woman-and-boy-in-northwest-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Anchorage Daily News that these kinds of incidents aren\u2019t common.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cOver the past few decades, it\u2019s been very, very rare for those types of attacks to occur,\u201d McDermott said. \u201cIt\u2019s incredibly tragic it happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/nannut.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ANCC<\/a> It is possible to \u201ctribally authorized organization\u201d Made up of 15 tribes that traditionally harvested polar bears for their livelihood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Anchorage Daily News reports that polar bears have been seen in the state&#8217;s northwestern region looking for food, such as garbage. McDermott claimed that the polar bees in the northern region are healthy. McDermott said that people living further inland reported seeing the polar bears around a decade back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhile rare instances like a bear showing up in Noatak have occurred in recent years,\u201d McDermott noted, \u201cthe presence of bears around communities like Wales is a normal and regular occurrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWales does not currently have an active Polar Bear Patrol Program due to lack of government funding, unlike the North Slope,\u201d McDermott said, \u201cbut this is something that ANCC has sought to pursue with other (nongovernmental organizations).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The following is an extract from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcticwwf.org\/wildlife\/polar-bear\/polar-bears-and-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Wildlife Fund<\/a>Polar bears are strong predators that pose a threat to people and their possessions. Over the past several years, there have been over 20 reported direct human attacks in the animals\u2019 range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/north\/polar-bear-attack-study-1.4202280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/18\/us\/alaska-polar-bear-attack\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> The Wildlife Society <a href=\"https:\/\/wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1002\/wsb.783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a> Reports of polar bear attacks were not reported until that point. \u201cextremely rare.\u201d They also found that \u201cnutritionally stressed adult male polar bears were the most likely to pose threats to human safety.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A polar bear attacked and killed a woman and boy in an isolated Alaskan village on Tuesday before it was shot and killed by a local. The attack took place in Wales, Alaska, which has around 170 residents, according to the 2020 Census. In a press release, Alaska State Troopers said they got a report &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1809901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8320,6361,8259,8718,6202,3904,15501,4049,6195,3983],"class_list":["post-1809898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-alaska","tag-attacks","tag-bear","tag-boy","tag-daily","tag-kills","tag-polar","tag-shot","tag-wire","tag-woman"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1809901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}