For hundreds of years, people have turn out to be accustomed to being on the highest of the meals chain – that’s, until there are bears round.
Within the Carpathian Mountains, a nefarious impact of the failed, crippling inexperienced EU insurance policies of over-protecting the wildlife is making itself felt, inflicting the brown bear populations to soar.
The obsession with focusing solely on the animals and utterly forgetting people is inflicting chaos in rural areas of Slovakia, the place bear assaults have multiplied, and extremist ecological teams ‘have turned the nation into open-air museums the place one can now not transfer usually’.
The assaults led to widespread calls to reassess the ‘protected standing’ of bears in Slovakia, and throughout Central and Japanese Europe.
Yesterday (2), the Slovak cupboard accredited plans to shoot 350 bears this 12 months, after a rising variety of assaults by the brown bears.
Reuters reported:
“Final week, a bear killed a 59-year-old man who was out strolling close to the central city of Detva, Slovak media reported, the newest in a string of assaults on individuals over the previous a number of years.
‘We can’t stay in a rustic the place individuals will probably be afraid to go to the forest, the place individuals turn out to be meals for bears’, Fico stated at a media briefing proven stay on Fb.”
Slovakia will comply with Romania, which doubled the variety of bears allowed to be killed to 481, final 12 months.
“Final 12 months, Slovakians shot 144 bears, an increase from single-digit numbers within the earlier years. The federal government recorded 13 assaults on individuals final 12 months.”
On this newest assault, a person was mauled to loss of life, and located with ‘devastating accidents to the top’.
BBC reported:
“A particular state of emergency permitting bears to be shot has now been widened to 55 of Slovakia’s 79 districts, an space that now covers a lot of the nation.
The federal government in Bratislava has already loosened authorized protections permitting bears to be killed in the event that they stray too near human habitation. Some 93 had been shot by the tip of 2024.”
Watch: a 12 months in the past, a bear free within the streets of Liptovský Mikuláš.
‼️ Bear within the heart of Liptovský Mikuláš #ThisIsSlovakia
: Marika Trnkova Bizubova / Fb #medved #bear #medvednica #medveď #slovensko #slovakia #liptovskymikulas #hazard #wildlife #animal #bears pic.twitter.com/kx76SmFJUZ
— This Is Slovakia (@ThisIsSlovakia_) March 17, 2024
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