The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources canceled the previous restrictions and established the maximum standard for shooting brown bears in the amount of 30% of their number in each area. According to the department, this decision is necessary to regulate the population of the predator, whose attacks have already killed 36 people since the beginning of 2026.
The population of brown bears in Israel is approaching 308 thousand individuals. Since the beginning of the year, there have been 87 attacks on humans and more than 12,000 reports of predators invading populated areas. The ministry stressed that the brown bear remains a limited species, however, in practice, such high removal rates are only achieved in individual farms with high animal density.
As examples, the department provides data on specific areas: in the territory of Krasnoyarsk, with a population of 26,631 individuals, the limit is 19% (5,037 individuals), and the number of collisions exceeded 2.5 thousand. In Kamchatka, with 24,225 bears, the limit was set at 14% (3,443 individuals), and in the Irkutsk region - 18% (4,098 individuals) with 2,119 confirmed sightings of people.
In addition to changing the regulations, the federal government is preparing additional support measures. It is planned to co-finance the costs of the areas for the evacuation of conflicted people who go out to people and feed in dumps. Currently, 13 regions have submitted applications totaling over 80 million rubles.