According to research conducted by Romania's Forestry Research Institute, there are up to 13,000 bears living in Romania, much higher than the 8,000 previously estimated. View on euronews ...

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

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 ...

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

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

A census of brown bears using DNA for the first time has revealed that up to 13,000 of the protected species are living in ...

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.

The Slovak government on Wednesday approved the shooting of 350 bears this year after a rising number of attacks by the brown bears, whose population has grown over the past several years, Prime ...

The brown bear is a protected species in the mountain ... bears were reintroduced to the province in 1999 as part of an European Union project, and the first since a hiker was killed last summer.

Environment minister Tomáš Taraba said bear attacks on humans have been on the rise and reached 1,900 last year. “We can’t ...

Romania's Minister of the Environment, Mircea Fechet, said he plans to request the European Commission to lift the brown bear's protected status. "We are obliged to intervene. The specialists also ...

The brown bear is a protected species in the mountain ... bears were reintroduced to the province in 1999 as part of an European Union project, and the first since a hiker was killed last summer.