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Two US Army soldiers were wounded when they were attacked by a brown bear during a training exercise at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. One soldier sustained severe injuries and was hospitalized, while the other received minor injuries.
A jogger was injured by a brown bear in Slovakia but managed to flee to a nearby train station and call for help despite chest wounds.
Residents of Rakitna, Slovenia, are concerned as brown bears are increasingly appearing near their homes. A planned culling of 206 bears last year was halted in July due to a non-governmental organization's court appeal, resulting in only 22 bears being culled instead of the intended number.
Two brown bears, siblings Alice and Michal from Slovakia, are settling into a new 5400-square-meter enclosure in Janské Lázně, marking the return of the species to the Krkonoše Mountains after 300 years.
Two Serbian drivers were apprehended at the Stara Gradiška border crossing in Croatia after customs officers discovered they were attempting to smuggle a large amount of cash and the head of a protected brown bear.
An analysis of brown bear populations in Slovenia for 2023 estimated 954 bears last spring, marking the highest annual count. Separately, 113 wolves are projected for 2024 and 2025.
A 162-kilogram brown bear was struck and killed by a train in Slovakia, marking the first such incident involving a bear in a traffic accident this year.
Two US soldiers were injured in Alaska after being attacked by a brown bear during a training exercise. The incident occurred while they were participating in the military exercise.
A prosecutor in Pierīga has sent a criminal case to court against a private zoo owner accused of catching and keeping a protected brown bear cub from the wild, causing significant harm.
In 2025, 185 brown bears were registered in Norway, six fewer than the previous year. This marks the first time since 2016 that the bear population has decreased in the country.
Poland is allocating over 16 million PLN to a four-year program aimed at protecting brown bears and enhancing public safety in the Podkarpackie and Małopolskie provinces, which includes forming an intervention group.
Customs officers at the Stara Gradiška crossing prevented two smuggling attempts, seizing 33,450 KM from a Serbian citizen and the raw skin of a protected brown bear from another individual.
Unique footage was captured of a brown bear newly awakened from hibernation in the Tartu municipality of Estonia, as bears typically emerge between March and April.
A 31-year-old runner was attacked and injured by a brown bear in a recreational area near the city of Banska Bystrica, Slovakia.
A hunter in Hokkaido had his rifle returned after a court set aside the revocation of his license, which was initially revoked for potentially damaging nearby structures when he shot a brown bear in 2018.
A man had an unusual encounter with a wild brown bear that sat down beside him on a riverbank, an event rarely witnessed by people.
A bear and her two cubs have been observed in the Catalan Pyrenees following their hibernation. According to the Transboundary Brown Bear Monitoring Group, 47 identified bears were counted in the region in April 2024.
Hunters in the Šimonys Forest recorded a rare guest, a brown bear, on Sunday, noting that an encounter would likely be uncomfortable.
Media in Montenegro are increasingly describing encounters with brown bears as an 'invasion,' with false news and sensationalist headlines inciting fear and pressuring institutions to allow culling, despite an unknown exact number of individuals.