Environmentalists have criticised Slovakia's plans to cull around a quarter of the country's brown bears following the latest in a string of fatal attacks. The remains of a 59-year-old man were found ...

The announcement raised scepticism among activists, who slam the government for increasingly allowing bear hunting in the country, home to Europe's largest brown bear population outside Russia.

Romania's Minister of the Environment, Mircea Fechet, said he plans to request the European Commission to lift the brown bear's protected status. "We are obliged to intervene. The specialists also ...