In August 2018, a 23-year-old employee at Kamchatka's Kronotsky Nature Reserve was killed by a bear. A Kamchatka brown bear is pictured at Moscow Zoo in this illustrative image.

A grown-up male bear can be three meters long and can weigh 700 kilograms. The population of brown bears in Kamchatka has about 17,900 species.

The woman was sleeping in a tent while on an adventure tour in Kamchatka, Russia when the brown bear mauled her on Friday, July 18, according to EurAsia Daily and local news outlet Izvestia.

I hope you enjoy his account of his bear hunting adventure as much as I did."This was my third trip to Russia to hunt with Denny Geurink's Outdoor Adventures; this time for the Kamchatka brown bear.

DNA extracted from a 32,500-year-old bear skull hints that ice age brown bears migrated to Honshu, Japan's largest island and lived near present-day Tokyo before eventually dying out.

There is somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 brown bears — also known as the Kamchatka (Far Eastern) brown bear — in the region, according to Bear Conservation.