{"id":790872,"date":"2024-07-16T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/?p=790872"},"modified":"2024-07-16T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T09:18:00","slug":"measures-to-contain-the-bear-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/today-in-the-news\/measures-to-contain-the-bear-population-id790872.html","title":{"rendered":"Measures to contain the bear population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">It rarely happens that Romanian MPs have to interrupt their long summer holiday and come back to work for extraordinary parliamentary sessions. Monday was one of these rare cases, with deputies returning to work for a short while to approve new bear hunting quotas. The move comes after a recent tragedy in the mountains, when a 19-year-old young woman was mauled by a bear on a popular hiking route. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Already passed by the Senate last year, a bill initiated by the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania stipulates that over 400 bears may be culled in 2024 and 2025. This targets mainly aggressive bears that attack humans and their goods. The counties where this is most often happening are <span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Harghita, Covasna, Bra\u015fov and Mure\u015f, all in the centre of the country. In Harghita alone, for example, gendarmes had to step in 231 times since the start of the year to chase the bears away. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Former minister and current senator from the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania T\u00e1nczos Barna, who initiated the bill, says the legislation is based on a scientific survey commissioned by the environment ministry to estimate the size of Romania\u2019s brown bear population. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">T\u00e1nczos Barna:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">All surveys, including those conducted by ONGs, indicate a constant growth in the brown bear population in Romania. Romania\u2019s brown bear population is not endangered, we need to take some steps as a precaution, as is the case in all EU member states with significant numbers of brown bears.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In favour of the bill were the National Liberal Party, the Social Democratic Party and the Alliance for the Union of Romanians, in opposition. The Save Romania Union, also in opposition, abstained, after several of their amendments were rejected. Diana Buzoianu, from the Save Romania Union, explains:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The first amendment to be rejected is about the fact that, if hunting is what we want, then to actually solve the problem, the hunting quota should be the responsibility of the specialised staff. We won\u2019t solve the problem through trophy hunting.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In the meantime, the director general of the National Forest Authority Marius Dan S\u00eeiulescu has ordered increased monitoring of the bear population in the forests managed by Romsilva, especially <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">on<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> tourist hiking routes. Hunters say, however, that without reducing the country\u2019s bear population, they will continue to interfere with human habitats. Experts say that no tragedies were reported at high altitudes, because older bears, whose number is low, are behaving in a more natural way and withdraw from the path of humans. The problem is with younger bears, who are born in cultivated areas, and which are not afraid of humans and are used to finding food by <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">raiding <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">homesteads and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">harvests<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It rarely happens that Romanian MPs have to interrupt their long summer holiday and come back to work for extraordinary parliamentary sessions. Monday was one of these rare cases, with deputies returning to work for a short while to approve new bear hunting quotas. 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