Japan is using AI, drones and wolf robots to keep bears at bay
“Japan used to (raise) semi-wild dogs (which naturally would) chase bears away from the city,” Adcock said, adding that his organization uses Finnish Karelian bear dogs to reduce human-bear conflicts by tracking, barking at, and chasing bears away from residential towns without harming them.
The rise in human-bear encounters in Japan can be traced back to shrinking rural communities following the World War II when millions of young people began moving to cities.” He decided to make public information usable before people go outdoors, and founded Kumamap, a bear incident tracker.
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