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Management of problem brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Croatia

Croatia holds a stabile brown bear (Ursus arctos L.) population of around 1000 individuals, managed by the national Brown Bear Management Plan. Implementation of the Plan is regulated by National Bear Management Committee and Bear Emergency Team. The later handles all situations with bear related problems. Due to opportunistic life style bears occasionally search for food from anthropogenic sources. Such feeding habits are often combined with loss of fear against humans, which is unacceptable and characterized as problematic behavior. If adverse conditioning (noise repellents and rubber bullets) used to scare problem animals don’t work a permit for the removal of specific individual is issued. Appearance of orphan bears is another source of problem animals which requires special attention. The most important part of problem bear management is prevention, which includes public education campaigns about cohabitation with bears.

brown bear; Ursus arctos; management; problem animals; Croatia

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