In the Tatras they want to feed the game on hiking trails. This will also attract bears
23. Apr 2025 at 14:59
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One feed will be only 50 meters from the pavement.
BRATISLAVA. Staying or hiking in the High Tatras can be a bit more dangerous. The Tatra National Park Administration wants to feed the game at almost 50 locations.
It is known that fodder for rattling game, such as deer, deer or wild boar, also attracts bears. And the initiative We are warned that several of them are only 100 or 200 meters from hiking trails, cycling or even family houses.
Environmentalist Marián Hletko from we are the forest says that such a distance for a bear means nothing. He considers a distance of 500 meters to be borderline.
« If the bears learn that they have food somewhere, they stay near this feed, » says Hletko. This was also shown by a study from Slovenia, in which they examined the movement of bears using GPS collars. Twenty -seven percent of the recorded positions were 500 meters from the feed.
This may also indicate a recent case of a fatal attack in Slovakia. At the end of March, he killed a 59-year-old bear. At that time, the conservationists from the Association of Ursia pointed out that the incident became 400 meters from the corn -corn bait and only 20 meters from the site of the disaster found a bear lying ground and droppings full of corn.
The application for feeding of the ratio game was approved in February by the District Office in Poprad. The Tatra National Park Administration asked for feeding in 49 locations. According to Hlette, up to 42 of them can be problematic.
The SME daily put GPS coordinates of fodder in the map and compared them with hiking trails.
According to GPS coordinates near Dolný Smokovec, about 150 meters from family houses and about 250 meters from the united elementary and kindergarten.
Another feed will be only 160 meters from family houses in Nová Polianka. Pohrimions should also be at large tourist centers such as Tatranská Lomnica or Strbske Pleso.
However, a large number of fodder is also planned in close proximity to hiking trails and cycle routes.
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