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Over 3,000 bears culled in Russia after wave of deadly attacks: ‘we’ve never had this’

Over 3,000 bears culled in Russia after wave of deadly attacks: ‘we’ve never had this’
South China Morning Post Saturday 17 October 2026, 06:13 UTC By Agence France-Presse 1 min read
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Seeing what looked like a brown blob in a tree while driving through Siberia’s Irkutsk region, 36-year-old Daria Tyurneva pulled over, curious to get a better look. She was not expecting to find a bear cub, perched on a branch, several metres up. “We stopped, without turning off the engine or taking off the gear, because we knew the mother could be somewhere nearby,” Tyurneva said, showing a phone video she recorded of the bear.

Seeing what looked like a brown blob in a tree while driving through Siberia’s Irkutsk region, 36-year-old Daria Tyurneva pulled over, curious to get a better look. She was not expecting to find a bear cub, perched on a branch, several metres up. “We stopped, without turning off the engine or taking off the gear, because we knew the mother could be somewhere nearby,” Tyurneva said, showing a phone video she recorded of the bear. Her sighting was one of several to spook Russians in recent weeks,... [Image text:] ye Forest Prore OCTOPOKHO! MEABEAN
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