Romania may be home to up to 13,000 brown bear, that is, nearly twice their number, as it was previously believed, said the Forest Research Institute in the country, where officials promised new laws to allow societies to deal with “bear situations”.
The institute’s study of 25 provinces in the Carbat Mountains was the first to use DNA samples of substances such as stool and hair. Previous estimates based on publications and viewers put the population below 8000.
According to the numbers of the Ministry of Environment, Beers has killed 26 people and has wounded 274 others over the past twenty years in Romania, the latest death is the 19 -year -old who was subjected to death on the path of a famous catastrophe last July.
Last year, the government has led to its authorized narrow from Brown Bears, which are protected species in the European Union, to 481 after recording more than 7,500 emergency calls to sign the bear scenes in 2023 – more than twice the total of the previous year.
Representatives argue that “population overcrowding” leads to an increase in attacks, which is a disputed confirmation by environmental groups saying that the focus must turn towards prevention, by removing the bears from societies and targeting “the bears is a specific problem”.
Last week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Germany updated the travel advice in Romania, noting that the bears were increasingly ventured in residential areas and along the roads, which led to “dangerous confrontations with humans.” She urged travelers to pay attention to local warnings.
According to an analysis of about 24,000 samples collected over three years since 2022, the institute’s study, which was published late last week, concluded between 10419 and 12770 people living in Romania – the largest number of brown population in Europe outside Russia.
Since then, Romania has wondered from the Global Wildlife Fund (WWF) about its methods, saying that genetic studies were usually conducted over a much shorter period, however The institute said It is considered a 95 % accurate survey.
The Romanian Environment Minister MIRCEA FECHET said he will pressure the European Commission to raise the protected situation of Bears. The European Union habitats are directed to kill only in exceptional circumstances and in a last series.
“We have to interfere,” Fishit told local media. Specialists say the perfect population of the bear is about 4000. “
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He also promised to submit a law that allows local officials to overcome the current system of “gradual intervention” – which may first require municipalities to try to intimidate or capture the bear – and instead puts the animal directly if necessary.
Fishit said that the current methods “have yet proven that they are ineffective,” adding: “I hope that my suggestion, who is currently under public consultation, has put an end to these tragedies. Human life comes first.”
Slovakia also allowed this month to cancel 350 brown bears-about a quarter of its estimated population of 1300-after a 59-year-old man was subjected to death. Two other people died last year after being attacked or repelled by the bears.
Robert Fico, the country’s popular prime minister, said that the Slovax “cannot live in a country that is afraid of people from going to the woods, and where humans become food for the bears.”