Conservationists Most Common People Killed By Polar Bears

Photo by Jerzy Strzelecki, via Wikimedia.

At a conference sponsored by Al Gore's nonprofit, The Climate Reality Project, it was revealed that while Polar Bears do not kill that many people each year, most of the people they kill are the very ones working to protect them.

The information was given by Olivia Nemy, a biologist who's often partnered with the nonprofit. She theorized that the trend was related to the large number of documentaries filmed where polar bears would be followed in the wild while searching for food, then filmed as they starved to death. Nemy person stated that the bears were adapting to the situation, and learning that in these circumstances they should look for the tracks of off-road vehicles and the flash of sunlight off of camera lenses.

"It's nature adapting," she said. "Yes, it's ironic in a way, but saving these animals was the goal of those conservationists in the first place, after all."