Succeeded in tracking and exterminating a man-eating brown bear with a ``biometric drone''

On March 17, 2024 local time, an incident occurred in Slovakia where a brown bear attacked five people. Slovak authorities have announced that they have tracked the man-eating brown bear using biometric drones and worked with local hunters to successfully exterminate it.

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On March 17, 2024, an accident occurred in Liptovsky Mikulas , a city in Žilina County in northern Slovakia, where a brown bear attacked a human. The bear attacked people walking on the street, injuring five people. Slovak dog breeder Marika Trunkova Bizubova posted a video on Facebook of a man-eating brown bear running around the town of Liptovski Mikulás.


The scene where a brown bear runs on the sidewalk in the video posted by Mr. Bizbova.

Although it is quite difficult to understand when it comes to still images, it also includes the moment when a brown bear attacks a human.

On March 18th, it was revealed that one person was killed and at least two others were hospitalized due to a brown bear attack. On March 15th, a Belarusian woman was attacked and killed by a brown bear in the Tatra Mountains near Liptovsky Mikulash. Liptovsky Mikulas' incident is attracting attention because this accident was the first fatal brown bear accident since 2021.

Viktoria Kapsikova, a spokeswoman for Liptovsky Mikulash, told Barron's that the bear attacked a 10-year-old girl, a 32-year-old man, a 49-year-old woman, a 58-year-old woman, and a 72-year-old man. I admitted that I am a man. 'The bear spent about 20 minutes in the town center, attacked five people, and then ran into the forest,' Kapusikova said.

Subsequently, Slovakia's Minister of the Environment Marsh Taraba updated Facebook on March 28, 2024, reporting that they had successfully exterminated a man-eating brown bear. A patrol consisting of local hunters and police officers found a brown bear in the forest near Liptovsky Mikulas and is trying to determine if this is the same bear that attacked five people in Liptovsky Mikulas on March 17th. He explains that he used a biometric drone to confirm this. According to reports, the man-eating brown bear that was exterminated was a 3-year-old female weighing 150 pounds (about 68 kg).


A man-eating brown bear incident in Slovakia has sparked controversy over how bears are managed in Europe. Although brown bears are still treated as a protected species in most European countries, several politicians in Slovakia, including the president, have called for brown bears to be lifted as their numbers continue to grow across the Carpathian Mountains. I am. Additionally, Slovakia's Ministry of the Environment has announced that together with Romania they will submit a document to the EU proposing the reclassification of brown bears.

It is estimated that 1,000 to 1,300 brown bears live in Slovakia, and another study published in Norway in 2018 found that there were 54 bear attacks in Norway between 2000 and 2016. It is reported that there was. In 2021, a fatal brown bear accident was reported for the first time in more than a century in Norway, and Liptovska Luzna, Norway, where this accident occurred, is a village only 48 km from Liptovski Mikulás in Slovakia.