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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

inhabitants per km², mainly livestock farmers. And I am inside the southern tip of the western Balkan Dinara-Pindos population range, stretching from Slovenia in the north to Greece in the south, with 2,500 bears. At the edge of the forest, above the road, a Roe Deer swiftly disappears between trees. Only the Balkan (700 + 2,500 ind.)

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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

According to the Food and Agricultural Organization's own report entitled Livestock's Long Shadow : "The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. That's right, free!