Deadly attacks in European home of the brown bear

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Brown bear attacks: Deaths spark fear in Romania

On Saturday evening a large male bear was struck by a car in Harghita County, and it took authorities a reported 19 hours to put it down.

Prime Minister Ludovic Orban echoed the anger of many when he complained that authorities had failed to do their duty. He said it had taken more than 15 hours for the environment ministry to receive the request to shoot the bear. It was not until Sunday afternoon that the bear finally died.Brown bears can cover huge distances in their quest for food as they consume up to 20,000 calories per day in the warmer months to fatten up for winter.

"Since the ban on trophy hunting there was a push by hunters and game managers to report as many damages [claims] as possible," says bear expert Csaba Domokos of the nature conservation NGO Milvus Group.Meet the man who saved Bulgaria's dancing bears

 

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