Carpathian brown bear in the woods of Romania — stock image. A 19-year-old woman is dead after being attacked by a bear that threw her off a cliff during a hike with her boyfriend.

Scottish tourist Moira Gallacher was mauled by a brown bear after she stopped in Romania's Carpathian Mountains to snap a selfie of the brood.

The new figures are taken from a genetic study done in 25 counties in the Carpathian mountains, using more than 24,000 samples, including faeces and hair. Previously, bear prints were counted to ...

There's even a dedicated safe haven: Libearty Bear Sanctuary, nestled in the southern Carpathian Mountains in the town of Zarnesti, is the world's largest brown bear sanctuary. It not only rescues ...

The bear was killed after it reportedly tried to attack the rescuers. Romania is home to Europe's largest brown bear population outside of Russia with 8,000, according to the environment ministry.

Carpathian brown bear in the woods of Romania — stock image. Credit : Getty. A 19-year-old woman is dead after being attacked by a bear that threw her off a cliff during a hike with her ...

A MAN has been savagely mauled to death by a wild brown bear as he picked mushrooms in a forest in Slovakia’s latest attack. The beast tore one of the victim’s main arteries with just i… ...

While on assignment in Romania, photographer Jasper Doest found himself uncomfortably close to a bear—leading to an image that captures tensions conservationists face in the region.

The emergency parliamentary session followed the death last week of a 19-year-old hiker who was attacked by a bear on a popular trail in the Carpathian mountains in central Romania.

Romania is home to the largest population of wild brown bears in Europe outside of Russia, with as many as 13,000 bears living in and around the largely untouched forests of the Carpathian ...