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Content <p>Slovakia wants to make it easier to shoot bears that the government says pose a danger to villages.</p> <p>The Environment Ministry <a href="https://www.minzp.sk/spravy/2024/april/posilnenie-ochrany-ludskych-zivotov-pred-utokmi-medveda-prerokuje-parlament-skratenom-legislativnom-konani.html" target="_blank">said</a> Wednesday a draft constitutional law would be fast-tracked in parliament to allow local authorities and authorized hunters to take down bears approaching human settlements.</p> <p>Under current rules, bears can only be killed once they have been driven away from dwellings or back into the forest. Under the proposed new rules, authorized staff would be able to shoot them within 500 meters of villages’ borders.</p> <p>The draft law comes after a woman <a href="https://hzs.sk/stret-s-medvedom-v-nizkych-tatrach/" target="_blank">died</a> in March, falling into a ravine, after she was chased by a bear; <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68675794" target="_blank">five people were injured</a> in a separate attack.</p> <p>Environment Minister Tomáš Taraba, who represents the far-right Slovak National Party and put forward the draft legislation, has been pushing to loosen protection rules for bears both at the national and the European levels.</p> <p>At a meeting of EU environment ministers last week, Taraba <a href="https://pro.politico.eu/news/177649" target="_blank">called</a> on the European Commission to downgrade the protection status of the brown bear.</p> <p>Bears are a protected species under EU law, meaning their culling is strictly regulated and should not undermine their long-term conservation.</p> <p>The legislative fast track removes some barriers in the parliament, but Taraba will still need broad support for it to pass.</p> <p>“In a short time, we will give the opposition a chance to show whether it is on the side of the citizens, their health and lives, or with various irresponsible non-governmental organizations who say that bears are herbivores and citizens are not in danger,” the minister said in a press release.</p>

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Hidden blurb --- !ruby/object:Feedjira::Parser::RSSEntry published: 2024-04-03 15:16:04.000000000 Z carlessian_info: news_filer_version: 2 newspaper: Politico EU macro_region: Europe entry_id: !ruby/object:Feedjira::Parser::GloballyUniqueIdentifier is_perma_link: 'false' guid: https://www.politico.eu/?post_type=pro&p=4533840 title: Slovakia proposes law allowing bears to be shot near villages categories: - Conservation - Environment - Sustainability content: |2 <p>Slovakia wants to make it easier to shoot bears that the government says pose a danger to villages.</p> <p>The Environment Ministry <a href="https://www.minzp.sk/spravy/2024/april/posilnenie-ochrany-ludskych-zivotov-pred-utokmi-medveda-prerokuje-parlament-skratenom-legislativnom-konani.html" target="_blank">said</a> Wednesday a draft constitutional law would be fast-tracked in parliament to allow local authorities and authorized hunters to take down bears approaching human settlements.</p> <p>Under current rules, bears can only be killed once they have been driven away from dwellings or back into the forest. Under the proposed new rules, authorized staff would be able to shoot them within 500 meters of villages’ borders.</p> <p>The draft law comes after a woman <a href="https://hzs.sk/stret-s-medvedom-v-nizkych-tatrach/" target="_blank">died</a> in March, falling into a ravine, after she was chased by a bear; <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68675794" target="_blank">five people were injured</a> in a separate attack.</p> <p>Environment Minister Tomáš Taraba, who represents the far-right Slovak National Party and put forward the draft legislation, has been pushing to loosen protection rules for bears both at the national and the European levels.</p> <p>At a meeting of EU environment ministers last week, Taraba <a href="https://pro.politico.eu/news/177649" target="_blank">called</a> on the European Commission to downgrade the protection status of the brown bear.</p> <p>Bears are a protected species under EU law, meaning their culling is strictly regulated and should not undermine their long-term conservation.</p> <p>The legislative fast track removes some barriers in the parliament, but Taraba will still need broad support for it to pass.</p> <p>“In a short time, we will give the opposition a chance to show whether it is on the side of the citizens, their health and lives, or with various irresponsible non-governmental organizations who say that bears are herbivores and citizens are not in danger,” the minister said in a press release.</p> summary: Bears are a protected species under EU rules. rss_fields: - title - url - summary - author - categories - published - entry_id - content url: https://www.politico.eu/article/slovakia-proposes-law-allowing-bears-to-be-shot-near-villages/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication author: Louise Guillot, Karl Mathiesen

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