Romania has an estimated 8,000 brown bears, Europe's largest population outside of Russia. Reece Parkinson visits the ...

A brown bear attacked and badly mauled a Russian man in a forest about 125 km (78 miles) from Moscow, local media and ...

In other parts of the world, programs are being implemented to prevent problematic bears from becoming accustomed to the ...

The bear cull is a policy that throws an interesting light on how Europe reacts to a harsh reality mostly associated with Africa — lethal human/wildlife conflict.

Environmentalists have criticised Slovakia's plans to cull around a quarter of the country's brown bears following the latest ...

The cull follows a series of high-profile incidents, including the death of a 59-year-old man whose body was found in the ...

Andre Rives was boar-hunting in 2021 when a female bear nicknamed Caramelles attacked him. "She was eating my leg," he said. "I reloaded my rifle and fired." ...

asked Alain Reynes of the bear-preservation association Pays de l'ours. According to that group, in 2023, there were 83 bears detected in the Pyrenees and 11 females gave birth. European brown bear ...

Vets had been waiting to observe how Boki would wake up to gauge the success of the surgery, the first of its kind on a brown bear. "He's looking brilliant, happy and healthy and we haven't seen ...

A handful of rescued bears in Europe are competing in March Napness, a bracket-style tournament to see what bear can stay in ...

Bear encounters continue to be an everyday reality to residents of mountain regions in Romania. This fact was made even more ...

A bear that had pioneering brain surgery to save his life has emerged from semi-hibernation "looking brilliant, happy and healthy". Boki, a European brown bear, was suffering seizures and vision ...