Wildlife videographer Bartolomeo Bove filmed a series of impressive close-up clips of brown bears roaming Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

The region is home to approximately 24,000 brown bears and the area Bove filmed at, Kurile Lake, is where about 100 come to hunt salmon.

The footage follows a mother bear and her cubs as they explore the region with one clip (beginning 9:40) showing the mother inspect one of Bove's cameras.

The photographer told Newsflare: "I have spent five days on the lake filming these magnificent animals. Each year, starting in summer, up to six million Pacific salmon swim upstream in the Ozernaya river (the only river originating in Kurile lake whose waters flow from it into the sea of Okhotsk) to get into the lake to spawn.

"The highest concentrations of bears occur along streams during salmon spawning. The Kurile Lake, located in the South Kamchatka Sanctuary is the largest spawning ground for red salmon (sockeye salmon) in Eurasia."

Bartolomeo Bove is a shark diver, underwater videographer and certified drone pilot. At the beginning of August 2023 he traveled to the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East, to film the largest brown bears of Eurasia. The Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian far east, is home to approximately 24000 brown bears, the largest brown bears of Eurasia, excellent swimmers and sharp predators. The area of the Kurile Lake, the deepest and the second largest lake of the Peninsula, in Southern Kamchatka is visited during summer by approximately 100 bears hunting for salmon. I have spent 5 days on the lake filming these magnificent animals. Each year, starting in summer, up to 6 million Pacific salmon swim upstream the Ozernaya river (the only river originating in Kurile lake whose waters flow from it into the sea of Okhotsk) to get into the lake to spawn. The highest concentrations of bears occur along streams during salmon spawning. The Kurile lake, located in the South Kamchatka Sanctuary is the largest spawning ground for red salmon (sockeye salmon) in Eurasia.