The Ministry of Environment has shared the preliminary results of a study estimating Romania's brown bear population. The research, which analyzed over 24,000 genetic samples from 25 counties, ...

Romania has an estimated 8,000 brown bears, Europe's largest population outside of Russia. Reece Parkinson visits the ...

A census of brown bears using DNA for the first time has revealed that up to 13,000 of the protected species are living in ...

at the bottom of a pit in a narrow Romanian cave. There were no claw marks on the stone, no signs of a struggle, just the silence of a pitfall trap that offered no return. But this brown bear’s ...

For Fico, Slovaks "cannot live in a country where people are afraid to go into the forest and where humans become food for ...

A census of brown bears using DNA for the first time has revealed that up to 13,000 of the protected species are living in Romania ... for increasingly allowing bear hunting in the country ...

Previously, bear prints were counted to give an ... in financing—concluded between 10,419 and 12,770 brown bears live in Romania, while authorities say the optimal number is 4,000.