{"id":11575,"date":"2025-04-03T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/slovakia-approves-cull-of-350-bears-after-latest-fatal-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:00:47","slug":"slovakia-approves-cull-of-350-bears-after-latest-fatal-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/slovakia-approves-cull-of-350-bears-after-latest-fatal-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia approves cull of 350 bears after latest fatal attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Slovakia on Wednesday approved a plan to cull 350 bears following the latest deadly attack on a human.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            A 59-year-old man whose body was found in central Slovakia on Sunday appeared to have been mauled, authorities said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Environment minister Tom\u00e1\u0161 Taraba said bear attacks on humans have been on the rise and reached 1,900 last year.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">             The brown bear population in Slovakia is estimated to be over 1,000.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cWe can\u2019t live in a country where people are afraid of going to forests,\u201d Prime Minister Robert Fico said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The government also declared a state of emergency in 55 of the country\u2019s 72 counties, a decision that allows the environment ministry to directly issue permission for the cull.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Environmental organizations said the decision violates the country\u2019s international obligations and argue the country should use preventive measures instead.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The ministry allowed the killings of 144 bears in 2024. Similar measure was approved in Romania last year.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 mauled, authorities said. Environment minister Tom\u00e1\u0161 Taraba said bear attacks on humans have been on the rise and reached 1,900 last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}