Russia Sets Cull Limits to Help Control Bear Population After Attacks Kill 36 People
The ministry said quotas vary by region and allocated more than $970,000 to finance the cull after 36 deaths and 87 attacks.
- On Friday, the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources established a brown bear cull quota of up to 30% to control populations after bear attacks killed 36 people this year.
- Rising bear-human encounters prompted this action, with more than 12,000 reports of bears approaching people and 87 attacks logged this year. The ministry aims to mitigate these threats.
- Regional quotas vary, including 14% on the Kamchatka peninsula and 19% in western Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region. Officials allocated more than $970,000 to target bears approaching people and feeding at landfills.
- Registered with Russia's Justice Ministry, the policy aims to control the estimated 308,000 brown bear population. The RIA news agency reported that no specific start date or duration for the cull exists.
- Data indicates the brown bear population has more than doubled over the last three decades, partly due to shorter, milder winters. This long-term growth complicates efforts to reduce human-bear conflicts.
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Russia sets cull of up to 30 per cent of brown bears after 36 people killed in attacks
The Russian government has established a cull of up to 30 per cent of brown bear populations to keep numbers in check after bear attacks killed 36 people this year, the Ministry of Natural Resources was quoted as saying on Friday. A ministry statement, quoted by the state RIA news agency, said the limit sought to better control bear populations and reduce the number of attacks and was already registered with Russia’s Justice Ministry. “Since…
Russia sets cull limits to help control bear population after attacks kill 36 people
The Russian government has established a cull of up to 30 percent of brown bear populations to keep numbers in check after bear attacks killed 36 people this year, the Ministry of Natural Resources was quoted as saying on Friday.
The Ministry of Nature lifts the limits and sets a maximum rate of 30 per cent of the number of brown bear shots in the regions to better manage the predator population, which has killed 36 people since the beginning of the year, reported to the Ministry ' s press service.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation has set a maximum standard for shooting 30 per cent of the number of brown bears in each region to reduce the number of conflicts with people; the Ministry has decided to lift the limits and allow the maximum standard for the removal of brown bears in the regions, as reported by the Ministry of the Environment in Max. The Ministry has explained that the population of these p…
Russia sets cull limits to help control bear population after attacks ...
This is attributed to the fact that 36 people died in bear attacks in 2026. The number of these predators has doubled in the past 30 years.
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