All news on the topic: Bears

Officials have issued updated advice for people heading to Italy - and warned that any holidaymakers planning on going hiking could face a growing threat

The father of a man mauled to death by a brown bear in an attack last year has begged officials for a cull of the large mammals near his home after another was seen walking along

A brown bear terrorised two women and a man by trying to climb onto the car's bonnet when it broke down on a remote highway

One north-western Montana man cut off a bear's claws and removed its ear tag, hiding them in a hollowed-out tree on U.S. Forest Service land near his home, before he was sentenced to four months home confinement.

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The usually vegetarian bears seem to have developed a taste for humans and have been terrorising locals in Japan where more people have been attacked and killed than ever before

Video footage filmed by someone in the audience shows the powerful bear charging at her trainer. The bear floors him before attacking him with a flurry of massive blows

Brigham Hawkins, 15, was watching TV in his family cabin in Alpine, Arizona, when a black bear entered through the open door and started attacking him from behind, his mother said

Benji and Balu were found malnourished, starving and underweight, with severe damage to their teeth from stress-induced bar-biting in the cage where they are languishing in Azerbaijan

Misha, a 25-year-old brown bear, was rescued by UK NGO International Animal Rescue and its partners FPWC in Armenia after being unable to eat properly due to poor dental health

A horrified audience watched on as the two children plummeted the ground after the male performer ‘lost his grip’ at the city circus in Ukraine's war-torn Zaporizhzhia

Moira Gallacher, 72, was attacked by a brown bear in the Romanian mountains while on holiday with her friend Charmian Widdowson

A stomach-churning clip shows the moment a group yanked bear cubs from the safety of their tree so they could take a selfie – leaving them cold, wet and alone on the floor

It is not the first time a disaster has been beneficial to Ukrainian wildlife. Since the Chernobyl disaster, the area has become a refuge for moose, deer, beavers, owls, brown bears, lynxes and wolves

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: A father has told how he was left picking up pieces of his own face from the floor after he was almost mauled to death by a grizzly bear in Alberta Rockies, Canada

A state of emergency has been declared in Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia with police ordered to 'eliminate' the animal after it was 'pushed into uninhabited zones by security forces'

She was walking with a male companion when the bear reportedly chased the pair

Lee Ann Galant, from, Pennsylvania, is recovering in hospital following a vicious bear attack that happened at around 8.30am on Tuesday after letting her dog Smokey out in the garden

Megan, an experienced hiker, was around six miles into an eight-mile trail in the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, US, when she first spotted the black bear

A 32-year-old volunteer was forced to sever his own arm as a bear clutched onto his arm as he placed food inside an enclosure at a wildlife sanctuary in Thailand

Ukrainian soldiers found an Asiatic black bear in the village of Yampil - and the animal has now found a new home at Five Sisters Zoo in West Calder, West Lothian

US Fish and Wildlife Service field assistant Amber Kornak was attacked from behind by a grizzly bear while working near a stream in the Cabinet Mountains, Montana

WARNING DISTRESSING FOOTAGE: Vanessa Obran and her husband John filmed a vicious fight between two large grizzly bears just metres away from a tourist boat in Canada

Alexander Proskurin died in July 2019 after claiming he had been kept in a bear's den for a month - but doctors later revealed he had been a patient in neighbouring Kazakhstan

The Wildlife Conservation Authority of the Amur region in Russia's Far East has warned that some bears cannot enter hibernation as climate change causes temperatures to be above average