Government officials in Slovakia announced on Tuesday that a search party was able to track down and kill the brown bear that had terrorized the village of Liptovský Mikuláš 10 days prior. That chaos ...

Watch: Videos on social media show a large bear bounding down the pavement before lunging at a man Two people are in hospital after being attacked by a bear in the Slovak town of Liptovský ...

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Slovakia's bear population has become a "political issue", said the BBC. Indeed, said Politico , the attacks were a "vote-winner" for Taraba and his Slovak National Party in the 2023 elections ...

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 ...

Ján was by no means the first bear victim in Slovakia. In 2024, two people died after being attacked or chased bythe animals. In March 2024, a bear ran amok, injuring five, ...

Diners in Slovakia could soon order delicacies like bear burgers after the government authorised the sale of bear meat to retailers. Amid efforts to cull around 350 of Slovakia’s some 1300 brown ...

(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, a town near ...

Environment minister Tomáš Taraba said bear attacks on humans have been on the rise and reached 1,900 last year. The brown bear population in Slovakia is estimated to be over 1,000.