Romania wants to kill up to 426 bears annually
Romania wants to kill up to 426 bears annually, three times more than the previous year. According to the Ministry of Environment, around 7,500 bears live in the country.
Killing three times as many bears
The Romanian government has proposed killing up to 426 bears annually, compared to 140 in the previous year. Currently, an estimated 7’500 to 8’000 bears live in Romania. In addition to trained technical personnel, recreational hunters are also to be permitted to shoot the wildlife.
A licence for trophy hunting?
Environmental groups criticised the proposal as a free pass for the otherwise prohibited trophy hunting. “The current proposal is a cynical suggestion to replace bear management with commercial recreational hunting”, Greenpeace Romania stated. Romania has the largest bear population in the EU. Recreational hunting fails as a population control measure. More on the topic of species protection and hunting legislation.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In our dossiers on recreational hunting gather fact-checks, analyses and background reports. What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
