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Slovakia loses court case over controversial bear cull program

Maria Kamińska

26.02.2026, 22:10

Photo by: Valerio Ferraro/REDA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) — Slovakia, home to the second-largest bear population in Europe after Romania, approved plans to cull about 350 of the 1,300 bears in the country. Photo by: Valerio Ferraro/REDA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The ruling comes in the first of a series of lawsuits challenging government-approved culling.