Bear Roaming in Pest County – Is It the Only One?
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- 20 Sep 2022
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Aszód, Acsa, Iklad, Kartal – four settlements in Pest County not far from the capital where bears have been seen recently.
“It is well known that the brown bear disappeared from the territory of Hungary prior to the Trianon Treaty, among other things due to intensive persecution. However, thanks to decades of conservation and wildlife management efforts, the population in Slovakia (too) has started to increase significantly. The cubs stay with their mothers until they are two to three years old, after which they take to the wild and seek their own territory. These stray animals migrate to the northern mountains of our country, which are directly linked to their habitats in the Carpathians,” Dr. László Patkó, wildlife biologist and Head of the Large Carnivores Program of WWF Hungary said.
In the case of the bear in Pest County, the available records suggest that in our case, it is the same specimen at each of the local sites. The animal itself does not appear to be a cub, but neither is it a full-grown adult bear at its full potential.
This does not mean that this is the only specimen roaming in our country or even in the area of the Cserehát. Last year, an animal was spotted here, and today we know of at least one other bear in the Bükk area, Patkó said.
Cserehát is a suitable habitat for bears, and the sightings in Pest County can be seen as the foothills of the mountain range. Read More...
