NORWAY approved the hunting of protected brown bears for the first time in an effort to limit their growing numbers, officials said. Hunters in the Finnmark region in northern Norway will be allowed to shoot three bears in September and October.

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Camera traps are cool, but isn't this an invasion of privacy Won't the wild animals sue A wireless camera concealed in a boulder puts nature lovers within spitting distance of Alaskan brown bears as they frolic in a river. Broz News Feeds

KODIAK, Alaska -- Researchers plan to set out Saturday for a monthlong excursion to study the plants that affect the eating habits of brown bears on Kodiak Island.

A bear has been raiding Genoa apple trees over the past weeks. Reports of the bear have ranged from downtown to areas north of town.

My mother had saved these original and genuine brown bear teeth.

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