Bears cause damage every day in Tusnádfürdő, Tánczos Barna, Minister of Environment, Water Affairs and Forestry, wrote on Facebook, thanking the residents of the settlement for supporting the draft law requiring immediate intervention.
"Hundreds of people demonstrated in Tusnádfürdő yesterday. In this way, they tried to draw the attention of the authorities to the continuous presence of bears in the settlement, where large animals cause damage on a daily basis, and the town has lost significant amounts of money since tourists, afraid of the bears, do not visit the settlement.
I would like to thank the participants in the demonstration for supporting the draft law requiring immediate intervention, and I hope that we can put it into practice as soon as possible, and thus not only people will be safe, but tourism in Tusnádfürdő will also improve," read the minister's post on Saturday.
On Thursday, the government discussed the first reading of the draft of the emergency decree regulating intervention against dangerous bears. The cabinet is expected to approve the legislative proposal next week.
Barna Tánczos presented the draft at Thursday's meeting, Kelemen Hunor reported on it in the RMDSZ's government briefing.
As he said, according to the legal procedure, after a bear attack is reported on the emergency number 112, the team operating in the settlement, entitled to immediate intervention, whose members are the mayor (in his absence, the deputy mayor), a member of the local gendarmerie, the hunting association or the hunting association, must be notified technical staff and a veterinarian. Immediate intervention enabling the removal of the bear can be carried out based on three methods: driving away the big game, anesthetizing the big game and relocating it, and in the event that it often returns to the settlement and poses a direct threat to human life, damages property, livestock, euthanasia or launch must be used.
"The draft allows the mayor or, in his absence, the team led by the deputy mayor to make a decision on the spot, there is no need to turn to anyone else for approval," Kelemen Hunor added.
The Deputy Prime Minister pointed out that as a next step, the ministries will countersign the draft, and the cabinet will accept it next week.
Source: erdely.ma
(Header image: RMDSZ)
