俄罗斯波德特索沃10月12日电——一只棕熊在西伯利亚针叶林中奔跑，两名猎人随即逼近猎物。三声枪响过后，这只熊迅速倒在长草丛中。
PODTESOVO, Russia, Oct 12 - A brown bear bounds across the Siberian taiga before two hunters close in on their prey. Three shots ring out and the bear quickly drops dead in the long grass.
猎人米哈伊尔·孔达科夫将步枪抱在胸前，把手搭在这头死去的动物皮毛上，他表示，在当地女性遭遇致命熊袭击后，他和其他人响应了附近波德特索沃定居点居民的请求。孔达科夫对路透社表示：“目前定居点的熊的形势非常严峻。”
Cradling his rifle as he rests his hand on the dead animal's fur, hunter Mikhail Kondakov says he and others have heeded requests from residents in the nearby settlement of Podtesovo after a fatal bear attack on local women. "The bear situation in the settlement is very difficult at the moment," Kondakov told Reuters.
“熊越来越多地直接进入定居点。今年我们遭遇了一场悲剧——两名去采蘑菇的女性被一只食人熊杀害。我们决定开始猎捕熊，因为它们的数量实在是太多了。”熊的数量失控这个问题在全国范围内都存在。俄罗斯政府上个月表示，正在制定紧急措施，以控制在一些地区已经失控的棕熊数量。据官媒报道，自今年春季以来，已有至少22人在袭击中丧生。
"Bears have increasingly been coming directly into the settlement. This year we had a tragedy — two women who went mushroom picking were killed by a man-eating bear. We decided to start hunting bears because there are so many of them." BEAR POPULATION HAS SPIRALLED OUT OF CONTROL The problem is nationwide. The Russian government said last month it was drawing up urgent measures to control the population of brown bears that has spiralled out of control in some regions, with at least 22 people killed in attacks since this spring, according to state media.
根据政府数据，在过去三十年中，棕熊的数量增加了一倍多，达到30.8万只，部分原因是冬季缩短且变温和。
The population of brown bears has more than doubled in the last three decades to 308,000 according to government data, in part due to shorter and milder winters.
俄罗斯媒体引述专家的话称，由于早春干旱导致浆果短缺，熊今年被迫到更远的地方寻找食物。人们也被指责将厨余垃圾露天放置以致吸引熊，以及忽视安全规则。
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 for them to feed on. People have also been blamed for leaving food waste out in the open where it attracts bears and for ignoring safety rules.
在孔达科夫狩猎所在的西伯利亚克拉斯诺亚尔斯克地区，这里生活着近2.7万头熊。调查人员上个月表示，他们已对当地环境部展开刑事立案，指控其未能将熊的数量控制在安全范围内，并指责其疏忽大意，导致仅在9月份就有7人死亡。
In Krasnoyarsk, the Siberian region where Kondakov is hunting and which is 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. In Podtesovo, a settlement of around 3,500 people perched on the right bank of the River Yenisei, a simple wooden cross stands on the grave of Zoya Gubanova along with a colour photograph of the late pensioner.
在叶尼塞河右岸坐落着约有3500人口的定居点波德特索沃，佐娅·古巴诺娃的坟墓上竖立着一个简单的木十字架，旁边还有这位已故退休人员的彩色照片。67岁的古巴诺娃于8月31日在采蘑菇（一项广受欢迎的俄罗斯消遣活动）时遭熊袭击身亡。
Gubanova, 67, was killed on August 31 in a bear attack while out gathering mushrooms, a popular Russian pastime. Chatting outside her wooden house, Yulia Markova, a local resident, says the situation has become intolerable. "We have been living in fear for almost two months now, we cannot even go out for a walk in the evening. People are afraid to let their children go out alone.
当地居民尤利娅·马尔科娃在她的木屋外面闲聊时表示，这种情况已经变得让人无法忍受。
This is not a cuddly toy, it is not some soft, harmless teddy bear. It is a wild animal. And who knows what its intentions are, what kind of mood it is in when it comes here.
她说道：“我们已经生活在恐惧中将近两个月了，我们甚至不能在晚上出去散步。人们害怕让孩子独自出门。这不是一个毛绒玩具，也不是什么柔软、无害的小熊。这是一头野生动物。谁知道它有什么意图，它来这里时是什么心情。也许它只是好奇，也许它在寻找它的下一个受害者。”
Maybe it is simply curious, or maybe it is looking for its next victim," she said. Markova said that locals, like bear attack victim Gubanova, had not fully understood the danger posed by bears and that people had initially felt sorry for them because they clearly did not have enough nuts and berries to eat this year. But she said hearts had hardened after the bears started coming into the settlement in large numbers.
*马尔科娃表示，当地人此前像熊袭击受害者古巴诺娃一样，并没有完全意识到熊构成的危险，而且人们最初对它们感到同情，因为今年它们的坚果和浆果明显吃不饱。但她表示，随着熊开始大批进入定居点，人们的心肠也硬了起来。马尔科娃说：“我们从未见过这样的入侵。”熊进入儿童玩耍的公园她表示：“当熊开始从森林里出来时，我们尽可能地限制出行，甚至去公园也不行。这真的很吓人，因为熊甚至会来到儿童玩耍的公园。天黑后出门是绝对不可能的。即便现在，虽然根据我们掌握的信息，目击次数似乎有所下降，但你走动时仍然会提心吊胆。”
"We have never seen an invasion like this before," said Markova. BEARS COMING INTO PARKS WHERE CHILDREN PLAY "When the bears started coming out of the forest, we restricted outings as much as possible, even to the park. It was really frightening because bears were even coming into the park where children play. Going out after dark was absolutely out of the question. Even now, although the number of sightings seems to have fallen, at least according to the information we have, you still walk around looking over your shoulder," she said.
另一位当地人尼古拉·日林斯基表示，人们正在等待天气变冷和熊冬眠，但他表示，即使这种情况发生，人们仍然会感到担忧。
Nikolai Zhilinsky, another local, said people were waiting for the weather to get colder and for the bears to hibernate, but he said people would still be worried even when that happened.
他说道：“我们不确定所有的熊都会冬眠。它们的数量太多了，而且它们很饿。”他补充说，他害怕划着小船去钓鱼，生怕遭到熊的袭击。
"We are not sure that all of the bears will hibernate. There are too many of them and they are hungry," he said. He was afraid to go fishing in his boat in case he was attacked by a bear, he added.
另一位当地人弗拉基米尔·瓦金表示，人们担心自己会在自家花园里遭到袭击。他指着自家花园里的一处树莓丛附近，认为熊曾经在那里逗留过。天黑后开车穿过定居点时，他指出了街道是多么空旷。他说道：“人们不敢出门，因为他们害怕。”
Vladimir Vagin, another local, said people feared they could be attacked in their own gardens. He pointed to an area near a raspberry bush in his own garden where he believed a bear had been. Driving through the settlement after dark, he noted how empty the streets were. "People don't go out because they are afraid," he said.