The detention of private brown bears should be prohibited

The private attitude of brown bears in Austria should be prohibited. FPÖ's competent minister, Beate Hartinger-Klein, said that the Four Paws animal protection organization had promised the change of legislation at a meeting, the NGO said on Thursday. . Currently, every private person in Austria can grow a brown bear under certain conditions.

Brown bears should remain private

According to "Four Paws", there is also a legal ban on brown bear breeding in countries such as Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro , Croatia and Poland. In Austria, the detention of dangerous wild animals, including large bears, by individuals in accordance with the 2nd Ordinance on livestock, although generally prohibited – brown bears are however, according to the NGO absurdly a exception. It is clearly prohibited in the respective national security laws the private possession of brown bears according to the "Four Paws" only in Carinthia and Vienna

Currently, "Four Paws" no case of attitude of the Private brown bear in Austria is known. saved inadequate housing conditions. Brown bears are not cuddly animals, but a highly sophisticated and potentially dangerous species, according to the NGO. "These are wild animals, so they should only be kept by authorized zoological facilities – of course, only on the condition that a correct attitude is guaranteed," said Campaign Director Martina Pluda .