Bear Man of Kamchatka
This is the first video submitted to Youtube featuring the soon-to-be much more famous Bear Man of Kamchatka, naturalist Charlie Russell, son of the famous Ontario conservationist Andy Russell. Charlie has starred in 4 documentaries and tv programs and is the author of 3 books, Spirit Bear, Grizzly Heart, and Grizzly Seasons. His groundbreaking research on wild grizzlies in the Russian far east has shed light on amazing potentials and possiblities for human-bear coexistence and his efforts have helped lead to the vastly improved protection of the threatened pristine Kamchatkan ecosystem. Here is a photomontage of his astonishing work with Russian bears set to Ray Lynch's "The Oh of Pleasure".
Note: This sort of interaction with bears is NOT recommended, most bears are too negatively influenced by humans and are not as trustworthy as these bears you see in these photographs. These bears have interacted with few humans aside from Charlie, and are not influenced to look for human food as a source, so their involvement with humans like Charlie is sheer fresh Edenic curiosity and friendship. Also many of these bears Charlie raised and released into the wild himself. Charlie follows very careful standards and precautions and knows the limits, though as he has discovered they are much further out thand most bear "experts" let on. With time hopefully Charlie's discoveries and lessons will help reverse the harsh negative influence of media-mongered tragic errors made by such notable victims of our society's Ancient-Rome-like schedenfreude as Tim Treadwell and Mishio Hoshino.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFyWaVmMbyw