Image: Facebook, Dino the Bear
Dino, the bear with over 25,000 Facebook friends, mostly Italians, was shot by a hunter in Slovenia. Hunting bears is legal in Slovenia, where approximately one hundred bears are killed annually, under permits intended to maintain the population at current levels. But the bears, like Dino, that wander west into parts of Europe no longer inhabited by their species gain a degree of special protection, under efforts to re-introduce wild bears to their former range. Thus it came as a surprise to learn, according to the headlines in Italy's Corriere della Sera, that Dino was killed on purpose. Article continues: Dino the Facebook Bear Shot in Slovenia
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