Bear at the airport airport in Japan to cancel flights: “We

TO bear Wandering along the track forced a Japanese airport to cancel flights on Thursday and declare themselves outside the limits for passengers for the day.

The black bear appeared at Yamagata airport in northern Japan, which immediately caused the closure of its track. The bear, which was about four feet high, was first seen near the track around 7 am on Thursday, Yomiuri Shimbun reported.

This first sighting resulted in a delay of up to an hour of four flights, before the animal resurfaces around noon, this time “running” on the track.

Airport staff used a car to chase it and closed the track again, with the bear still generally somewhere in the facilities.

“Given the situation, there is no way that we can organize the arrivals of the plane now,” said Akira Nagai, Yamagata Airport official, News on Thursday night, adding the second closure, led to 12 flight cancellations.

With the hunters brought to establish a trap and police officers that surround the airport to prevent the escape bear, “now we are at a dead point,” Nagai said.

The installation plans to keep the track closed until around 8:00 pm, said the official.

Human meetings with bears have reached record levels in Japan, with 219 people attacked and six deaths in the 12 months until April 2024.

Last month, an bears sighting brought a premature end for a golf tournament In the center of Japan, with the organizers citing security precautions.

The climate change that affects food sources and hibernation times is a key factor, but as Japan’s aging population is reduced, humans leave rural areas, and that also leaves room for bears to move.

“Then that area was recovered to the forest, so the bears have the opportunity to expand their rank,” Koji Yamazaki Biologist, from the University of Agriculture of Tokyo, He told News themezone‘Elizabeth Palmer in 2023.

Japan is one of the only places on the planet where a large kind of mammals has been recovering habitat, which is good news for bears, but if, as biologists suspect, the population of bears is growing, the country will have to discover new ways to protect people and vital infrastructure like airports, animals.

The Japan government in February approved a bill that allows hunters to shoot bears in populated areas.

In December, a Lear that shook Through a Japanese supermarket for two days, he was attracted to honey -coated foods. Police said the animal was trapped and then killed.

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