For centuries, humans have become accustomed to being on the top of the food chain – that is, unless there are bears around.
In the Carpathian Mountains, a nefarious effect of the failed, crippling green EU policies of over-protecting the wildlife is making itself felt, causing the brown bear populations to soar.
The obsession with focusing solely on the animals and completely forgetting humans is causing chaos in rural areas of Slovakia, where bear attacks have multiplied, and extremist ecological groups ‘have turned the country into open-air museums where one can no longer move normally’.
The attacks led to widespread calls to reassess the ‘protected status’ of bears in Slovakia, and across Central and Eastern Europe.
Yesterday (2), the Slovak cabinet approved plans to shoot 350 bears this year, after a rising number of attacks by the brown bears.
Reuters reported:
“Last week, a bear killed a 59-year-old man who was out walking near the central town of Detva, Slovak media reported, the latest in a string of attacks on people over the past several years.
‘We cannot live in a country where people will be afraid to go to the forest, where people become food for bears’, Fico said at a media briefing shown live on Facebook.”
Slovakia will follow Romania, which doubled the number of bears allowed to be killed to 481, last year.
“Last year, Slovakians shot 144 bears, a rise from single-digit numbers in the previous years. The government recorded 13 attacks on people last year.”
In this latest attack, a man was mauled to death, and found with ‘devastating injuries to the head’.
BBC reported:
“A special state of emergency allowing bears to be shot has now been widened to 55 of Slovakia’s 79 districts, an area that now covers most of the country.
The government in Bratislava has already loosened legal protections allowing bears to be killed if they stray too close to human habitation. Some 93 had been shot by the end of 2024.”
Watch: a year ago, a bear loose in the streets of Liptovský Mikuláš.
Bear in the center of Liptovský Mikuláš #ThisIsSlovakia
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— This Is Slovakia (@ThisIsSlovakia_) March 17, 2024
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