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A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Washington has found that the climate crisis is leading to an increase in human-wildlife conflicts. This is due to changes in temperature and rainfall that make food, water and healthy habitats harder to come by, forcing animals and humans into new territories. As a result, humans and wildlife are increasingly coming into contact with one another, leading to injury or death for both humans and animals, as well as property damage and loss of livelihoods for humans.

Wait.. take bear's house and food and then be surprised it comes to your house?

Insane.

Has nothing to do with humans building more and farther. It's climate change, not sprawling cities

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There are still hundreds of thousands of acres of good wildlife habitat around the USA. Yes we destroy there habitat and that is having an effect, the biggest effect is yes climate change. Flooding, droughts, fires etc. are destroying the areas where wildlife live and forcing them into where humans live. Short answer is both but climate change is the real push the animals are experiencing to migrate elsewhere.

You don't think building cities leads to climate change? No pollution happens because of constrution?

Never said it didn’t…. I was referring only to the lost habitat to build cities not the emissions, which absolutely loop back to why animal human encounters are becoming more common.