Feeding wild animals does more harm than good. It can lead to abandonment of natural sources of food in favor of "man made" sources i.e.the polar bears of Churchill Canada which see to prefer to feed at the town dump rather than hunt natural prey out on the ice flows.
This can and often leads to confrontation between the bears and the local population.One which the bear almost always loses.
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Feeding wild animals does more harm than good. It can lead to abandonment of natural sources of food in favor of "man made" sources i.e.the polar bears of Churchill Canada which see to prefer to feed at the town dump rather than hunt natural prey out on the ice flows.
This can and often leads to confrontation between the bears and the local population.One which the bear almost always loses.