Hokkaido to ban feeding brown bears to protect ecology

Hokkaido to ban feeding brown bears to protect ecology

TOKYO, Japan - Brown bears look for pink salmon at a river mouth on the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido in this file photo taken on Sept. 9, 2014. Japan's northernmost prefectural government is set to designate brown bears from 2015 as subject to its biodiversity conservation ordinance, which prohibits feeding wild animals to protect ecology.

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