In the Arctic, notifications about the appearance of polar or brown bears will be sent via a bot.
Arctic residents will be notified of polar or brown bear sightings via a special bot.
The new service was announced at the fourth All-Russian Forum and Festival "Arctic. The Ice Has Broken," which took place in Khanty-Mansiysk.
The service was developed as part of the Clean Arctic project. According to its creators, the bot will be particularly helpful to hunters, reindeer herders, and weather station workers. Information will be collected from people's messages. The administration will then process the signals and send alerts.
The bot will be free to use, according to Andrey Nagibin, head of Clean Arctic, and is currently being tested.
Roman Yershov, head of the Northern UGMS, confirmed that bears have begun visiting weather stations more frequently due to climate change. In the north, about 50 weather stations are located in hard-to-reach areas, along the Arctic Ocean coast. And additional bear protection measures are indeed needed there: for now, additional lighting, cameras, and fencing are being installed.
Photo: "Green Patrol".