Manage people more and bears less, say Indigenous elders in world’s ‘polar bear capital’

Manage people more and bears less, say Indigenous elders in world’s ‘polar bear capital’

A few years back, a particularly imaginative young boy came into Georgina Berg’s kindergarten class in Churchill, Canada, full of excitement. Launching into his story, he said that moments earlier, on his way to school, he and his siblings had turned a corner and come face-to-face with a polar bear. Before the boy had time to react, his mother took hold of his backpack and swung it square into the bear’s nose. The bear took off running, and the …