„Today, we are facing several situations, each of which requires a different solution,” the Environment Minister explained to RFI. She stressed that, in the case of communities with farms affected by bear attacks, the priority solutions are electric fences and protection systems, for which the state must provide financial support.
As for the bears on the Transfăgărășan, the problem is different: „There are bears there that are used to being fed. If you feed them once, you are basically condemning them to death, because they lose their fear of humans and inevitably end up causing dramatic incidents.” In this regard, the Ministry of the Environment is preparing a bill that would expressly punish the feeding of animals and „drastically increase” fines, Buzoianu said.
The official pointed out that currently, gendarmes and Forest Guard representatives only issue fines for illegal parking, because feeding animals is not ...