Hunting

A bear attacked the two victims on the streets of Fagaras in southern Transylvania on Monday morning - the 40th such incident in recent weeks in the region, according to local authorities.

The bear attacked the 14-year-old when she was leaving of her apartment building in Fagaras at 7.30 am on Monday.

Japan said on Sept. 26 it killed 177 whales off its northeast coast in an annual hunt that sparks anger among animal rights activists and others.

Three ships which left port in June returned with 43 minke whales and 134 sei whales, the number stipulated beforehand, according to the country's fisheries agency.

A 34-year-old man accused of killing a fellow countryman on the Ionian island of Zakynthos has been granted 48 hours to prepare his testimony.

The suspect faces charges of murder and illegal weapons possession. 

This Saturday opens the hunting season of feathered animals, the Ministry of Agriculture reports. The state reminds that hunting rules must be obeyed to avoid hunters' incidents.
 

Police in Pilio, central Greece, are investigating the circumstances that led to an 88-year-old man shooting himself in the head with a hunting rifle in front of his house on Friday.

According to local reports, the man, who has not been named, emerged from his house in the village of Aghios Vlasios and shot himself in front of his neighbors.

Members of hunters' and gamekeepers' associations empty bags of corn to feed flocks of migratory birds at the wetland of Nea Kios on the shores of Argolic Gulf near Nafplio, in the northern Peloponnese, over the weekend. Many migratory birds have taken refuge in wetlands in southern parts of Greece because of freezing conditions in the north of the country.

Hunting has been banned until January 18, the Environment Ministry announced on Wednesday.

The ban was brought into force to protect endangered species - which have already suffered the impact of the cold weather this winter - from poachers amid reports of a spike in illegal hunting around the country.

The Forestry and Water Affairs Ministry has launched new efforts to prevent hunters from illegally harming wildlife.

The Nature Conservation and National Parks Directorate, General Directorate of Forests, gendarmerie, police, village heads and honorary hunting inspectors have joined hands to support an effective fight against illegal hunters.

A 56-year-old Cretan man faced a prosecutor Thursday after allegedly assaulting a 40-year-old Bulgarian woman in the cafe where she works in the port of Iraklio with an iron bar and later attacking her son in her home.

A police search on the suspect's home turned up a hunting rifle, a bow and 10 arrows and four small swords.

Cara Delevingne has stripped off to become a naked work of art participating in a new campaign for animal rights, ‘I’m Not a Trophy’.

The model and actress poses naked while images of animals such as a lion, zebra and gorilla are imposed on her body.