April 2006 > Friday 21st April 2006

Slovenia to send bears to France

Slovenian experts are hunting five bears to be sent to France to help boost the population in the Pyrenees.

Five Slovenian bears will escape the chance of being shot in the hunting season, to start a new life in the French Pyrenees....more

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Pyrenees National Park
Slovenian Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning

Published17:17:44 on Friday 21st April 2006
International Date:2006-04-21
UK Full Date:21/04/2006
UK Short Date:21/04/06

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