Report calls for improved worker safety measures around polar bears

A new report is calling for improved worker safety protocols around polar bears.

This follows the death of a worker at a remote radar installation on Brevoort Island, Nunavut, who was killed by polar bears in August 2024 after leaving a building to take photographs, according to a recent report from The Canadian Press (CP).

Christopher Best, 34, had been working with a tank cleaning crew at the North Warning System site—operated by Nasittuq Corporation—when the incident occurred.

On the day of the attack, Best and his crew had spotted a bear and taken photos from inside a vehicle. Later, Best asked a wildlife monitor to inform him if bears were nearby so he could take more pictures. The wildlife monitor saw Best at the

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