Slovakia on Wednesday approved a plan to cull 350 bears following the latest deadly attack on a human. A 59-year-old man whose body was found in central Slovakia on Sunday appeared to have been ...

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 government has decided to cull even more bears," arguing that thousands of encounters each year pass without incident and calling on the European Commission to intervene. Environment Minister ...

Over the last 30 to 40 years, European wildlife has undergone a dramatic ... and iconic comebacks are large carnivores — brown bears, wolverines, Eurasian lynx, and especially the wolf ...

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. Regular readers of this column ...

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