Slovakia Backs Plan To Shoot 350 Bears After Man Killed in Attack

The Slovak Cabinet has approved a plan to Around a Quarter’s Brown Bears, after a man was Mauled to death in a Walking in a Forest in Central Slovakia.

Prime Minister Robert-Nationalist Government Announced After a 350 Out Population Of 1,300 Brown Bears Would Be Citer to Humans A Attacks.

“We Can’t Live in a Country Where People Are Afraid To Go Into The Woods,” The Prime Minister Told Reporsters Afterwards.

A Special State of Emergency Allowing Bears to Be Shot Has Now Been Widened to 55 Slovakia’s 79 Districts, An area That Now Covers Most Country.

The Government in Bratislava has allowed Legal Protections Allowing Bears to Be Killed Too Stray Too Close to Human Habitation. Some 93 Had been shot by The End of 2024.

The Plans to Shoot Even Conservedists by Consemned, Who Said The Decision was in violation of International Obligations and Could Be Illegal.

“It’s absurd,” Said Michal Wiez, An Ecologist and MEP Opposition Party Progressive Slovakia.

“The Environment Ministry Failed Desperately to Limit The Number of Attacks by the Unprecedented Culls Protected Species,” He Told The BBC.

“To cover up Their Failure, The Government has decided to Cull Even More Bears,” He Continued.

Wiezek Argued That Thousands of Encounters A Year Passed Incident, And He Hoped The European Commission Would Intervene.

Slovak Police Confirmed On Wednesday That A Man Found in Forest Near The Town of Detva in Central Slovakia on Sunday Night Was Killed by A Bear. His Wounds Were Consistent With An Attack.

The 59-year-Old Man had been reported by Missing on Saturday After Failing to Return to WABS in the Woods.

He was found with what authorities described as “devastating injuries to the head”. Evidence of A Bear’s den Was Found nearby, A Local Ngo Told Slovak Newspaper Novy Cas.

Bears Have Become A Political Issue After Slovakia A Rising Number of Encounters, Including Fatal Attacks.

In March 2024, A 31-Year-Old Belarusian Woman Fell Into A Ravine And Dieing While Being Chased by A Bear in Northern Slovakia.

Several weeks Large Brown Bear Was Video Running Through The Neckre Of The Nearby Town Of Liptovsky Mikolas in Broad Daylight, Bounding Past Cars And Lunging On The Pavement.

The Authorities Later Claimed to Hunted Down and Killed The Animal, Although Conservation Said Later There Was Evidence Those Had Shot A Different Bear.

Environment Minister Tomas Taraba Said on Wednesday There More than 1,300 Bears in Slovakia, and That 800. Sufficient Number “, As the Population Was Growing.

However, Experts Say The Population Remains More Or Less Stable at Around 1,270 animals.

Bears Are Common Across The Carpathian Mountain Range, which Stretches An Arc Romania Through Western Ukraine and on to Slovakia and Poland.