Rising along the line where eastern and western Europe divide, a forested mountain range is home to shepherds, villages and ...

However, habitat destruction as well as hunting have caused a sharp decline in bear populations. Today only 45 to 50 bears remain in the Alps. They are mostly found in northern Slovenia and Italy. In ...

A 31-year-old woman from Belarus has died after she was chased by a bear in the north of Slovakia, officials said. The Slovak Mountain Rescue Service said the woman's body had been recovered from ...

Greenpeace activists are calling on the Polish prime minister to take action to protect Poland’s forests, asking in particular that this government limit the harvesting of timber in the old ...

It is not the only reported bear attack in recent years. A fatal incident was recorded in 2021 - the first in Slovakia for a century. Bears are widespread across the Carpathian mountain range ...

The Venus of Kołobrzeg, discovered by a Polish farmer on the Baltic coast in 2022, has been authenticated as a Neolithic ...