Black bears from Great Smoky Mountains National Park entering houses for food

Shortage of food is driving the starving black bears from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park into nearby residential neighborhoods and tourist areas. The beasts are climbing up condominium balconies, crawling onto a school campus and breaking into vehicles. This is because the animals are not finding enough food in their own habitat, hence they are venturing into human territories.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 11 November 2015.

As revealed by a spokesman of the park, food is very scarce this year. Their favorite foods are wild cherries, acorns, hickory nuts and walnuts and these are in short supply this season. This happens to be a periodic problem usually attributed to weather patterns. Hence, the bears are driven to hunt in more precarious spots like garbage cans, barbecue grills and bird feeders.
The National Park Service has issued necessary alerts instructing visitors to stay away and has temporarily shut certain roads to protect the public and allow the bears to feed in their natural habitat.
Incidentally, at this time of the year, the park's roughly 1500 bears fill up on food before bedding down for the winter and, some of them are known to travel more than 160-Km from home to find a meal.

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Britain is on top of the world as far as cherry production is concerned because it has a bumper crop of cherries the size of plums. Some growers feel that the fruit could be ‘the new strawberry’.
In fact, British growers of the fruit have had their best year in decades.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 15 August 2015.

It seems near-perfect weather conditions of warm days and cold nights have produced one of the largest crops on record. This year there is a 20 per cent more home-grown cherries than in 2014.
Cherries grown in Britain are bigger in size than imported ones because here, the growers can leave them on the tree for longer periods. Thereby, it gives them a better flavor and a darker skin.
The fruit is grown in Kent, Herefordshire and Scotland. The British season runs from April until September. The health benefits of cherries are many – it contains fiber and vitamin C and have gained popularity as an on-the-go snack. Cherries also contain powerful antioxidants such as carotenoids and anthocyanins that help prevent cancer. It also has natural melatonin which can help with sleep and bodily regeneration.
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