Bears that enter towns can be shot. Large fines for those who feed them

„We have passed through the government a long-awaited law, an emergency ordinance that has been awaited for many months. I could say that it is a problem that Romania has been facing for years. We are trying to find a balanced solution in the sense that Romania also has a biodiversity that it must protect, at the same time we must protect this biodiversity while also taking into account the safety of citizens. The law that we proposed today comes as a compromise solution in the sense that we continue to apply the principle of gradualism outside the built-up area, but when a bear comes into the built-up area, where you have a very large population and agglomeration of the population and where, obviously, there is a risk of a bear-human incident, here we will remove the condition of gradualism in the sense that the commission for emergency situations that is taking turns will be able to decide whether the intervention takes place by chasing, by relocation or by shooting”, says Diana B...