Are You Up For Collecting Bear Droppings?

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Environmental officials in Norway, are asking Hikers,and walkers, to do just this. In an effort to gain more information found within the excrement that could help them learn more about Norway's dwindling Brown bear population. These bears once flourished in Norway but rampant hunting in the early 20th Century destroyed their numbers, of the remaining, most are now found along Norway's eastern border with Sweden, Finland and Russia. But the method to poo-picking, in order to avoid contaminating the samples with human DNA, they advise is to "Avoid touching the droppings - turn a plastic bag inside out to pick them up". So why not go on a 'poo-picking' ramble this weekend, and help researchers learn more, about a resident Brown Bear?... source:bbc.co.uk