Wednesday 8 November 2006 at 09:50 | write a
[from LCIE] Serbia constitutes part of the distribution of two brown bear populations. In the west it overlaps with the Dinaric-Pindos population that stretches down the western Balkans from Slovenia to Greece. In the east there are a few bears in the mountains that form the very southwestern end of the Carpathian range. However, this bear population is relatively isolated because it is seperated by the Danube river from the rest of the Carpathian range. In an effort to reinforce this eastern population plans have been made to translocated a few bears from the west to the east during the coming years. On the 30th of October a single 103 kg male (named Djura) was live-captured in the west of Serbia and translocated the 250 km to the east. More releases are planned for next spring.