{"id":15394,"date":"2025-04-03T15:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/slovakia-approves-cull-of-350-bears-after-latest-fatal-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T15:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:05:06","slug":"slovakia-approves-cull-of-350-bears-after-latest-fatal-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.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\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm91e6910004p26p2co42abew@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            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\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm91e8zuu000a356mx6v5x254@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            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\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm91e8zuu000b356mkn2du5p4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            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\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm91g47gf0003356mqxqkf4h1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">             The brown bear population in Slovakia is estimated to be over 1,000.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm91e8zuu000c356msa7gcs22@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \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\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm91e8zuu000d356msvsqr7ia@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            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\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm91e8zuu000e356mz3p9vnna@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            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\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm91e8zuu000f356mk1gfs0wb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            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<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slovakia on Wednesday approved a plan to cull 350 bears following the latest deadly attack&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}