The future of the black bears and us?

We have thus found that the bears in Tokyo live quite close to our own world. Their enormous might causes, though rare in occurrence, troubles with human beings. If we were to seek full safety, then exterminating all the bears near us might be one easy option. Should this be the only possibility though? What would happen if such an out-and-out extermination were carried out? As we have discussed, the bears in Okutama roam from the proximity of villages to the depth of the mountains. This means that an extermination of bears near villages could eliminate them altogether from the depth of the mountains. As noted previously, the disappearance of bears from Okutama would mean the loss of the Okutama corridor linking the bears in areas beyond Okutama Mountains.

Progress is being made recently in many regions in Japan by imposing "fear of man" on those bears that are either making trouble or deemed to do so. For this, they capture the bears live and "punish" them with pepper spray. Because the bears pass from one local government to another freely, what seems most desirable now is for the local governments to make collective efforts to try out some global management programs across the board. For this to be realized, shouldn't it be of prime importance that we, as individuals, pay more heed to the bears and the nature of Tokyo.

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