The Slovak cabinet has approved a plan to shoot around a quarter of the country’s brown bears, after a man was mauled to death while walking in a forest in Central Slovakia. Prime Minister Robert Fico’s populist-nationalist government announced after a cabinet meeting that 350 out of an estimated population of 1,300 brown bears would […]
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Hunter on Trial After Shooting Bear That Attacked Him
André Rives, an 81-year-old French hunter, is on trial after killing an endangered bear in the Pyrenees. Newsweek has contacted the Ariège farmers’ union and an attorney representing several bear charities. Why It Matters According to the French Biodiversity Agency, in 2023, there were more than 80 bears in the Pyrenees, a chain of mountains […]
March Madness is underway. So is March Napness, the tournament for hibernating bears
Bears across Europe are competing, not for food or mates, but for who can sleep the longest. Inspired by March Madness, March Napness is an annual bracket-style tournament where hibernating bears “compete” to see who will remain in hibernation the longest. It is run by Four Paws, a global animal welfare organization. “The sleepiest bear […]
Disturbing rise in wild killers on the loose sparks action across America… as four-year-old girl is savaged at her $2.3M home
A bloodthirsty coyote that attacked on a four-year-old girl in an idyllic suburban neighborhood has put a spotlight on the growing number of Americans targeted by wild predators. The most recent incident occurred in a ritzy area outside Seattle and saw the ferocious animal latch its jaws onto the young girl and begin to drag […]
Bear attack crisis hits Japan as government brings in emergency measures allowing people to shoot them after surge in dangerous encounters
The Japanese government will now allow hunters to shoot bears in populated areas after dangerous human encounters with the wild animals hit record levels. The revised wildlife protection and management law, which was approved by the cabinet Friday, allows ’emergency shootings’ following complaints that hunters were hampered by red tape. The environment ministry hopes to […]
Petition: Demand Alaska End Inhumane Predator Slaughter of Wolves and Bears
The Alaska Board of Game has extended it’s predator control program, resulting in the murder of numerous bears and wolves — 94 brown bears, five black bears, and five wolves — in just May and June. These actions, meant to boost caribou calf survival, lack scientific evidence and severely disrupt Alaska’s ecosystems by slaughtering innocent […]
Alaska to Resume ‘Barbaric’ Aerial Shooting of Wolves and Bears
Alaska will resume the “barbaric” practice of shooting bears and wolves from helicopters to reduce their numbers with the hope that it will boost moose and caribou herds. The renewed program would permit hunters to kill as many as 80 percent of the natural predators across 2,000 acres of state lands, reported The Guardian. “Alaska‘s […]
Despite Biotech Efforts to Revive Species, Extinction Is Still Forever
I was crouched on the ground, 50 feet from an aurochs. At least it looked like one. Eight generations of back-breeding had resurrected an animal reminiscent of the giant bovine that crashed from Earth’s biota in 1627. The coal-black beast had the forward-facing horns of the long-extinct aurochs. It had the same muscular shoulders and […]