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RT @rcallimachi: 9. Join me in the Comments section of our @nytimes article about the bear vs. people conundrum in Romania: .

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RT @rcallimachi: 8. But the idea of hunting this majestic animal doesn't sit right with many Romanians, who point out that the problem is l….

RT @rcallimachi: 7. The people who live in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the counties most affected want a hunting moratoriu….

RT @rcallimachi: 6. The brown bear - which can reach up to 900 pounds and can stand as tall as a doorway - have been sighted in 27 of Roman….

RT @rcallimachi: 5. Calls to 112 - the Romanian equivalent of 911 - to report bears threatening people or their property was 1,750 in 2020.….

RT @rcallimachi: 4. On a third occasion, a bear penetrated the spa, and downed a 3-liter jug of massage oil. The majestic creature has been….

RT @rcallimachi: 3. The bear headed to the breakfast buffet where it ate all the sachets of honey. On another occasion, it entered a hallwa….

RT @rcallimachi: 2. The brown bear - or ursus arctos - is one of the national treasures of my birth country. But in recent years, the man v….

RT @rcallimachi: 1. At 4:22 am on June 20, the intruder approached the entrance to the four-star resort. The break-in took 23 seconds. The….

RT @icmoldovan: I’ve spent over a year documenting bears and the complexities of human and animal cohabitation. I’ve returned to photograph….

9. Join me in the Comments section of our @nytimes article about the bear vs. people conundrum in Romania:

8. But the idea of hunting this majestic animal doesn't sit right with many Romanians, who point out that the problem is largely man-made: a result of real estate developments encroaching on the bear's habitat, which caused the bear to enter human communities, where it acquired a

7. The people who live in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the counties most affected want a hunting moratorium to be lifted.

6. The brown bear - which can reach up to 900 pounds and can stand as tall as a doorway - have been sighted in 27 of Romania's 41 counties. I visited five people who have been disfigured by bears, in one instance speaking to the victim's daughter because the man remains intubated

5. Calls to 112 - the Romanian equivalent of 911 - to report bears threatening people or their property was 1,750 in 2020. Only halfway through 2025, the number is already over 5,000:

4. On a third occasion, a bear penetrated the spa, and downed a 3-liter jug of massage oil. The majestic creature has been a tourist draw for decades in Romania, but this is not Winnie the Pooh. The numbers of attacks on people are through the roof:

3. The bear headed to the breakfast buffet where it ate all the sachets of honey. On another occasion, it entered a hallway spooking this housekeeper:

2. The brown bear - or ursus arctos - is one of the national treasures of my birth country. But in recent years, the man vs nature equation has flipped. I visited one hotel where bears came *inside* the establishment not once, not twice, but three times just in the month of June.

1. At 4:22 am on June 20, the intruder approached the entrance to the four-star resort. The break-in took 23 seconds. The suspect weighed 400 pounds. The target of the burglary? Honey. A thread on how Romania's bear population has exploded:

The bear is one of Romania’s national treasures, an animal interwoven into the mythology of the nation. But in the last few years, it’s no longer people coming to see the bear, but the bear coming to see people, with photos by @icmoldovan