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A hiker attacked by a wild brown He was found dead in northern Japan on Friday, authorities said, one day after the bloody encounter that, according to reports, saw him crawl to a forest.

The 20 -year -old hiker tried to fight the big animal, but was dragged into the nearby forest with the legs bleeding profusely, the local media said, including the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper.

The man was attacked while walking along a path in Mount Rausu on the northern island of Hokkaido on Thursday morning, a local police spokesman said to the News.

On Friday afternoon, he was found and taken to a hospital where he was officially declared dead, according to an official of the Hokkaido government.

The hunters also caught and killed a bear near the path, an official who worked for Shari Town, where the mountain is, told News.

The DNA analysis will be carried out to determine if the bear was responsible for the death of the victim.

According to the media, a wallet that contains a card that was named after the man’s scene in the northeast of Hokkaido.

A torn and bloody shirt that is believed to be found on Friday, with nearby trees and soil sprinkled with blood traces, said Kyodo’s news agency, citing the police.

Among other articles were a clock, a hat and what seemed to be tear gas, Kyodo said.

The number of brown bears in Hokkaido fell year after year in 2023 for the first time since 1991, according to estimates published this month.

There were about 11,600 at the end of 2023, less than 500 compared to the previous year.

The Hokkaido government cited unprecedented brown bears hunt, with a record of 1,804 trapped in the 12 months until March 2024.

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

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.

In 2023, Hunters killed a elusive brown bear nicknamed “Ninja” in Hokkaido after at least 66 cows attacked, The Association press reported. That same year, Japanese local officials and the media reported that three bears were sacrificed after Snorting in a tatami stem factory in the northern part of the country.

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