Bears, boars, monkeys and even dolphins are becoming bolder and more aggressive as climate change impacts their habitats and forces them into confrontations with humans.
Dramatic changes in the landscape of rural Japan have caused significant changes in the behavior of the nation’s wild animals, leading to more frequent and more violent clashes with humans.
Bear attacks have typically accounted for the majority of the attacks on humans, along with occasional rampages by boars, but there has been a sharp increase in reports of attacks by monkeys this summer, while authorities in one coastal city have warned of dolphins becoming aggressive towards swimmers.
In the six months to November 2020, a record 13,670 bears were sighted across Japan, with no fewer than 63 people mauled in attacks, two of whom died of their injuries.
In southern Japan, residents of the tiny island of Kakara are considering evacuating as wild boars have largely taken over, destroying their crops of pumpkins and sweet potatoes and becoming increasingly aggressive and territorial.
The situation has become so bad that parents no longer allow their children to play outdoors for fear they will be attacked.
This summer, Japanese media has devoted extensive coverage to a number of clashes between troupes of monkeys and local people.
In some of the cases, the rogue simians have entered people’s homes by opening windows or breaking a mosquito screen and bitten or scratched residents.
Local authorities in Yamaguchi Prefecture, in southern Japan, reported 66 incidents in July alone and issued advice to local residents to not make eye contact with a monkey as it could be perceived as a challenge and precipitate an attack.
“There seem to be several factors contributing to the increase in these cases, but I think one of the biggest particularly this year is the effect of climate change, said Mariko Abe, of The Nature Conservation Society of Japan.
For the last decade or so, the rainy season that used to reliably last for around a month from mid-June has become shorter and delivered less rain,” she said, adding: “And this year it has been extreme.”
The result is that the food sources in the mountains and forests have not produced sufficient quantities for the monkey population, meaning they have had to go looking for food.
And that has brought them into areas of human habitation. Another factor is that suburbs are constantly edging further into animals’ habitats, she added.
“With villages losing all their young people and gradually shrinking, there are fewer people to stop the wildlife from taking over.”
“I also feel that means animals are often no longer frightened of humans,” said Kevin Short, a professor who specializes in environmental education at the Tokyo University of Information Sciences.
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