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In continuation of our series on weird facts you don’t know about some countries and animals – we present to you, the Kamchatka Brown Bear.

The Kamchatka Peninsula, on Russia’s Pacific coast, is a 10-hour flight from Moscow and remains one of the world’s great natural wildernesses. Emerging from steam in the Valley of the Geysers is a Kamchatka brown bear (Ursus arctors beringianus), the largest carnivorans in Eurasia.

It was noted by early visitors to the region that these bears were relatively tamed compared to their Siberian counterparts, but in 2008 a platinum-mining community in the region was overrun by a slew of beer, killing two workers.

Up until 1990 the bear population thrived, but since then, with the demise of Soviet Union, mineral exploitation and international trophy hunting has seen the bear population put under unprecedented ecological pressure.

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