The incident came just days after authorities approved the culling of 206 brown bears, whose population in the area has ...

The Slovak government has decided to allow the consumption of brown bear meat, angering environmentalists who have slammed the move as absurd and giving a boost to poachers. Slovakia's nationalist ...

LOW TATRAS NATIONAL PARK, Slovakia — In early spring, a Belarusian couple were hiking in the trailless crags of the western Carpathian mountains when they stumbled into a brown bear. They ran but were ...

Oct 5 (Reuters) - A 55-year-old man has died after a bear attack in a forest in northern Slovakia, emergency services said on Saturday. The incident happened in an isolated area near Hybe ...

But there was also fury on the streets of Detva, home to about 13,000 people. With Slovakia’s bear population having risen sharply over the past century, some said it was a tragedy waiting to ...