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In the polar bear capital of the world, a community lives with the predator next door and loves it

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In the polar bear capital of the world, a community lives with the predator next door and loves it.

The average polar bear tourist spends about $5,000 a visit, pumping more than $7 million into Churchill , Canada .

There are about 600 polar bears in this Western Hudson Bay population, about half what it was 40 years ago .

Churchill and province officials put together a polar bear alert program to make sure the community members were looked after, mayor says.

The military base’s rocket launch site seemed to keep bears away, and when it closed in the 1970s , they came around more.

The guards are expected to scare any bears away with warning shots, flares, bear spray or noise.

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English

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