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3. The management of the bear population
in Slovenia at present
Bears culled so far:
An
overview of bears culled so far in seven hunting years (i.e. from
1st April to 31st March) during the period between 1994 and 2000
and the cull in the 2001 and 2002 calendar years, according to gender
and weight (as of 18th November 2002):
A
table and graph showing the reasons for the cull:
| reason
for the cull |
2002 |
 |
 |
Losses |
22 |
 |
Capture
of live bears |
3 |
 |
Exceptional
cull |
24 |
 |
Regular
cull |
59 |
| total |
108 |
94-01
= hunting year
01-02 = Calendar year |
| |
|
94/95 |
95/96 |
96/97 |
97/98 |
98/99 |
99/00 |
00/01 |
2001 |
2002 |
|
Regular
cull |
36 |
29 |
31 |
33 |
43 |
29 |
42 |
35 |
59 |
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Exceptional
cull |
2 |
2 |
9 |
7 |
7 |
12 |
3 |
7 |
24 |
|
Capture
of live bears |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
|
Losses |
4 |
1 |
5 |
8 |
12 |
13 |
11 |
12 |
22 |
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total |
42 |
32 |
47 |
49 |
62 |
56 |
59 |
56 |
108 |
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The
work of the brown bear intervention group:
The
intervention group for problems involving brown bears was founded
on the basis of Government resolutions and Decision No. 017 - 62/00,
dated 5.4.2000, adopted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Food.
The
group acts on the basis of a written operative agreement with the
police and on the basis of the resolution adopted by the director
of the Forests Institute of Slovenia No. 16/00, dated 30.5.2000.
In
cases of a conflict with bears, the group answers calls to the intervention
numbers 112 and 113 - the operative communication centre and the
police. From the records kept by the intervention group, we can
surmise that in 2002 the group responded to over 80 calls for intervention,
which is almost 50% more than in the previous year.
In
line with its legal and professional responsibilities, the methods
for solving problems with bears used by the intervention group are
the capture of bears, scaring bears with different technical devices
and rubber missiles or killing them with fire arms.
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