Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

Besides leading language courses the Czech and Slovak school Okénko in London are very much involved in various projects. One of them is a special artistic fundraising event, they have put together for the people in Ukraine. Last week, the Environment Ministry has filed a criminal complaint against an unknown perpetrator for illegally feeding bears while disregarding dangers such a behaviour might cause. The ministry responded this way to recent attacks by a brown bear on humans in central Slovakia. Mayors of towns and villages call on authorities to address what they see as an unsustainable overpopulation of brown bears. What do we actually know about the bear population in Slovakia? We speak to Robin Rigg, the head of the Slovak Wildlife Society