Alarm in Zagori after bear attack: “We can’t even walk in our own village”

Tension prevails successful Doliani, Zagori, aft a carnivore attacked an aged nonmigratory of the colony — close successful the courtyard of his home. The incidental followed a agelong play during which the bear, according to testimonies, had been roaming done the village, forcing locals to locomotion astir utilizing megaphones to scare it off.

“We cannot locomotion done the cobbled streets of our village. The carnivore was acrophobic of nothing,” the colony president told Epiruspost.

No one, however, could person imagined it would participate the courtyard of a location with the lights on. The people’s shouts did not scare it, and successful an instant the aged antheral was struck by the chaotic animal, which hurled him into a three-meter-deep ditch.

Residents are profoundly unsettled, and those who walk the wintertime successful Athens oregon Ioannina are rushing back.

At this clip of year, bears are aft grapes and walnuts. With nutrient supplies dwindling, they are present venturing adjacent into courtyards successful hunt of it.

“All villages look akin problems. As the colonisation shrinks, chaotic animals marque their mode into settlements. The fig of bears is expanding twelvemonth aft year,” said Zagori Mayor Giorgos Soukouvelos.

The Municipality and the Doliani Community person already informed the Protected Areas Management Unit (formerly the Northern Pindos Agency), portion different biology organizations person besides been notified — some astir this incidental and the broader problems caused by bears.