ZARNESTI, Romania (Reuters) - Two brown bears in Romania have been rescued from a zoo where conditions did not meet European Union animal safety standards and have been transferred to a sanctuary ...

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, much more than the 8,000 previously estimated, the government ...

Bears are frequently present in fairy tales. It's perhaps fitting then that these furry animals are ubiquitous in Romania. This wildly underrated, awe-inspiring country is dominated by the Carpathian ...

A reporter visiting Romania, where she was born, found that humans’ ancient relationship with bears there had fallen out of balance. By Terence McGinley Times Insider explains who we are and what we ...

Slovakia is looking to copy the Romanian example and cull several hundred bears. While such populist measures prevail in Slovakia, Romania is also showing less-bloody ways forward. On the morning of ...

A 19-year-old woman died in the Romanian Carpathian Mountains after being attacked by a bear, Romanian news agency Mediafax reported on Wednesday. She was dragged away by the wild animal while hiking ...

Romania's parliament on Monday approved the culling of almost 500 bears this year in a bid to control the protected species' "overpopulation" after a deadly attack on a 19-year-old hiker sparked ...

Knowing the realistic number of bears is important. On their basis we define how to manage the bear population and how many bears can be legally hunted. But how to do that when the official census ...

The Romanian parliament on July 15 voted to more than double the quota of annual legal bear kills following a fatal bear attack on a 19-year-old woman in the Bucegi Mountains. The draft law provides a ...

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Police and hunters were tracking a brown bear which attacked and killed a man in the south of Romania on Wednesday, just days after a bear infected with rabies was shot dead ...