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 be culled, citing the danger to humans after a spate of attacks.
“We can’t live in a country where people are afraid to go into the woods,” the prime minister told reporters afterwards.
Yet another case experts saying X and the government doing Y.
"Environment Minister Tomas Taraba said on Wednesday there were more than 1,300 bears in Slovakia, and that 800 was a “sufficient number”, as the population was growing.
However, experts say the population remains more or less stable at around 1,270 animals."