俄罗斯棕熊袭击频发：今年至少26人死亡、逾3,440头熊被扑杀 一女子用SI假熊照片恶作剧被罚款
据路透社10月14日报道，俄罗斯当局今年对熊袭击保持高度警戒：多个地区发生致命袭击，棕熊数量增长加上浆果与松子歉收，增加了人与熊相遇的机会。
阿穆尔州马格达加奇居民区一名女子本周被罚款。她今年9月用ChatGPT生成了一张大棕熊在当地街道上漫步的图片发给朋友，玩笑迅速失控：照片在即时通讯应用中传播，警方接连收到居民的惊恐来电，区长甚至派出了野生动物巡护员去处置这头并不存在的熊。该女子随后致电警方承认图片系其生成，法院判处其罚款15,000卢布（约178美元）。
9月中旬，东部外贝加尔地区另一名女子也因在村庄发布假熊图片被罚款30,000卢布。
据俄新社周一报道，今年自春季熊结束冬眠出洞以来，熊袭击已造成至少26人死亡。俄政府上月表示，正制定紧急措施以控制棕熊数量——该数量三十年来已翻了一倍多，达到30.8万头，部分原因是冬季变短变暖。据塔斯社10月10日公布的统计，今年以来已有逾3,440头被认定对人类构成威胁的熊被扑杀。
在西伯利亚的波德捷索沃居民点附近，猎人应居民请求出动猎熊：今年当地两名采蘑菇的妇女被一头食人熊杀害。在克拉斯诺亚尔斯克边疆区（约有近2.7万头熊），调查人员上月对当地环境部门立案，指其未能控制熊数量、玩忽职守，并称仅9月就有7人因此丧生。专家在俄媒上表示，今年春季提前且干旱，浆果不足迫使熊到更远处觅食；也有人把责任归于居民把食物垃圾露天放置招引熊只、以及不遵守安全规则。（GSM 据路透社报道）
Bear Attacks Spread Fear Across Russia: At Least 26 People Killed This Year, More Than 3,440 Bears Culled; Woman Fined over SI-Generated Bear Photo Prank
Russian authorities are on high alert this year due to a spate of deadly bear attacks in several regions, where growing bear populations and a poor crop of berries and pine nuts have increased the chances of encounters with humans, Reuters reported on October 14.
A woman in Russia's Far East was fined this week after an SI-generated image of a bear, created to prank a friend, went viral and triggered a real-life hunt, the regional courts said. The resident of Magdagachi settlement, Amur region, used ChatGPT to generate the picture of a large brown bear seemingly strolling down a local street and sent it to her friend in September. "The joke quickly got out of control. The photograph of the bear spread through messaging apps, and police began receiving alarmed calls from residents," the Amur courts' press service said in a statement, describing how the district head dispatched wildlife rangers to deal with the phantom animal. The woman called police and confessed to creating the image. A court this week ordered her to pay a fine of 15,000 roubles ($178).
In mid-September, another woman in the eastern Transbaikal region was fined 30,000 roubles for posting a fake image of a bear in a village, Russian legal news agency RAPSI reported.
This year, at least 26 people have been killed in bear attacks since the spring, when hungry bears emerge from hibernation, news agency RIA Novosti said on Monday. In response to the attacks, the government said last month it was drawing up urgent measures to control the brown bear population, which has more than doubled in the last three decades to 308,000, in part due to shorter and milder winters. Since the start of the year, over 3,440 bears have been killed that were deemed to pose a threat to humans, according to a tally compiled by state news agency TASS and published on October 10.
In the Siberian settlement of Podtesovo, hunters have heeded requests from residents after two women who went mushroom picking were killed by a man-eating bear. In Krasnoyarsk, the Siberian region home to nearly 27,000 bears, investigators said last month that they had opened a criminal case into the local environment ministry, accusing it of failing to keep bear numbers under control, negligence which they said had led to the deaths of seven people in September alone. Experts cited in Russian media have said bears have been forced to look further afield for food this year because an early and dry spring meant there was a lack of berries, and people have also been blamed for leaving food waste out in the open and ignoring safety rules. (GSM, from Reuters reporting)
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图片来源：图：俄罗斯远东堪察加棕熊资料照片。照片：Robert F. Tobler，Wikimedia Commons，CC BY-SA 4.0。Photo: a Kamchatka brown bear in Russia's Far East (file photo). Photo by Robert F. Tobler via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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