Canadian city where polar bears are imprisoned for misconduct (7 photos)

The small Canadian town of Churchill is located on the coast Hudson Bay, in the province of Manitoba. Despite the remoteness, it often visited by tourists. The fact is that near the city you can meet a large number of polar bears. The city is even called the "World Capital". polar bears."





Bears play people and get up at dawn to go to work.

It happens that you do it first, and then think? And I would like it the other way around, only time has already gone, and nothing can be fixed now. In Canada, a whole city was built like that! Churchill was founded in the 1600s in the province of Manitoba. It was used as a place where they traded in fur. And everything would nothing, except that they built a city on the shores of Hudson Bay, right on the polar bear migration route!

All winter predators spend in the ice of the bay, hunt on the seal and work up fat. Closer to summer begins mass migration - the ice melts, and the bears wander to the shore. About a thousand bears pass at this time along the outskirts of the city deep into the mainland! In autumn, the situation is repeated in the opposite direction - bears in a hurry to go to the newly frozen bay and start hunting.



On such all-terrain vehicles ride tourists so that they look at the bears from a safe distance.

So it turns out that in the vicinity of Churchill, hundreds of clubfoot are constantly walking back and forth. And the bipedal residents in the city, according to the latest data, are only 870! For such an unusual ratio, the town received its unofficial name - Polar Bear Capital of the World. Over the centuries of living next to predators, people have learned do not provoke conflicts, respect wild animals and help each other. Some residents don't even lock their cars so that anyone in danger can quickly get away from the bear.





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But the bears in terms of food production are uncompromising. In summer in search of easy money, animals come closer to the city - trash cans, barns and houses. To keep people safe, the local authorities organized a prison... for polar bears!

Sanya, hare to fight! Right now they will put us in jail for hooliganism!

The prison is a modified large military hangar with 28 cells. Bears are placed there by force, like people - for faults. Animals are caught with special traps or euthanized directly with darts from a gun, and then placed in a chamber. The term of imprisonment can last from several days to a month or more. It all depends on what the clubfoot did. Usually crimes limited to trespassing, debauchery, or theft: cases of assault on a person are considered a huge rare.



And from the outside, the "prison" looks very picturesque...

But why go straight to jail? The thing is, that the bear is not a stupid animal. If you just put him down and take away, he will most likely come back. After all, he already has an association: “city = food”. And in subsequent raids, the clubfoot can behave much more aggressively. Therefore, in order not to shoot the bears, people came up with the idea of u200bu200bputting them behind bars.



Chief, I got it! I will no longer steal cabbage from Baba Mani in the garden. Release!

In prison, animals are given only water, simulating a summer hunger strike. They are deprived of all kinds of entertainment so that the beast has the maximum uncomfortable. Just bare walls and straw bedding to sleep on. This is how the bears develop the most negative associations with the city, and the probability of their return tends to zero. Later the time of imprisonment of animals is marked and taken away as far as possible. And the strategy works!



And so the final stage happens - the release of the bear.

Perhaps, if it were not for the bears, the city would have died out long ago - no one sells fur now. So clubfoot is the main attraction of Churchill. Thousands of tourists come to the ends of the world to see live legendary beasts and touch the wild nature. How is that safari - even special all-terrain vehicles were invented so that without fears to go straight to meet the clubfoot