Posted on 03/18/2024 12:24:33 PM PDT by george76
Two people were hospitalized after being attacked by a bear in Slovakia, officials reported Sunday. The Environment Ministry may propose making the animals easier to hunt to reduce their population.
A 49-year-old woman suffered a wound to her shoulder and a 72-year-old man was treated for a gash on his hand from the bear in the town of Liptovsky Mikuláš, emergency services said.
Police drove the bear out of town..
A day prior to the latest attack, a 31-year-old Belarussian woman apparently fell to her death trying to escape a brown bear in the nearby Low Tatra mountains.
She and a male companion had been walking in the thickly forested area when the bear approached them.
The man and woman fled in different directions. A rescue dog found the victim's body shortly after the male hiker called authorities for help.
There have been several relatively recent bear attacks in Slovakia including a fatal one in 2021. The country had not reported a lethal bear attack in more than a century.
Improved protections in Central and Eastern Europe have meant bears have returned to their natural habitats across the Carpathian mountain range, which stretches from Romania through western Ukraine and to Slovakia and Poland.
The uptick in human-bear interactions has prompted the Environment Ministry to consider calling on the European Union to loosen protections for bears, making it easier to hunt them in an attempt to reduce their numbers and lower the threat of such encounters.
The ministry has said it may revisit the bears' status on the protected species list, arguing their increasing numbers mean they are no longer endangered and can be selectively hunted, culling the herds.
Or someone who runs slower than you.
You could have eaten squirrel for a month!!!
Squirrel fish?
I have a friend who thinks bears are so cute, adorable. She likes to go to the Smoky Mountains and look for them.
I’m like...no.
Stephanie Blais, 44, was mauled to death by a black bear while she was on a phone to her father outside family cabin while her nine-year-old son watched from inside.. Stephanie was stalked by the black bear.. She had her back turned. She did not see it..
A conservation officer said that the bear attack was unprovoked and -2- the bear was not hungry / had a stomach full of berries..
Yeah.
I’m not a fan of bears.
I am a slow runner, but, i carry a great big .44 mag when out and about.
Hollywood has been filling people’s minds with false ideas for a century.
Shows like Gentle Ben portrayed bears as fuzzy persons.
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