bears

  To clap eyes on one bear in Greece would be something to write home about, but motorists near the northern city of Kastoria were startled by a pair of young bear cubs on Thursday. According to eyewitnesses quoted by the...

A brown bear was discovered dead in the outskirts of Florina, in northern Greece on Tuesday. A veterinarian is examining how the brown bear, a protected species, died just a day after the authorities were alerted to a bear being spotted near...

The bears in the Arcturus Sanctuary of Nymfaio, Florina, have started  hibernating because the very low temperatures and the snow alerted their biological clock. "The oldest bears first went to sleep followed by the younger ones who had come from the...

Two young wild bears took a stroll at Kastoria center after midnight on Monday, alarming the residents of the northern Greek city. Nikos Panagiotopoulos, member of brown bear protection group Arcturos and Environmental Protection Society of Kastoria, told AMNA news...

Despite spending a lifetime in captivity in Thessaloniki's zoo, the brown bears Sasha and Alexandra have managed to adapt beautifully to a life closer to their natural wild state, at the Arktouros Shelter for brown bears in Nymphaio, Florina,...

A study conducted by ARKTOUROS, a Greek wildlife conservation organization, between 2007 and 2010 found that the number of bears in Greece has increased. "At this moment, there are 360 registered bears, which indicates a population increase, compared to the last...

In October 2013, a series of actions will start being implemented in the Municipality of Grevena, a mainly mountainous and agricultural area located within the administrative region of Western Macedonia, Greece, for two years, in the framework of the...

A few days ago, the environmental organization Callisto was informed by a villager of a new instance of two bears who were found dead at a short distance from the city of Grevena, on the road to the...