Transylvania’s Bear Crisis: When Europe’s Largest Predator Comes To Town | Full Wildlife Documentary

https://youtu.be/-San7qEfAMg Deep in the Transylvanian forests, an ancient Bear Cult has survived. Here, Europe’s greatest land predator is a symbol of rebirth in the New Year. Modern Romania has not lost its fascination with bears. It peaked under Ceausescu, in a breeding programme designed to satisfy the dictator’s hunting obsession. His regime is now history, but the bears are still there; and with ever-increasing numbers, conflict is unavoidable. Romania has more bears than any other European country: over 6,000! We follow a female bear and her three cubs as they move from the mountains to become “problem bears” in the town. Three Romanians show, in their different ways, the country’s ambivalent attitude to bears. Follow shepherd Petre Clem, activist Laura Niculescu and the ranger Bogdan Sulica. They all have their own solutions to the same problem. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual youtube channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads of full-length documentaries and docu-series every week! Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/GetfactualSUB 0:00 The Ancient Conflict 0:40 The Romanian Exception 2:20 Why Hibernation Fails 4:39 Secrets of the Cave 6:42 The Dictator's Obsession 16:55 Nocturnal City Shadows 40:08 The Ranger's Balancing Act The following assets were used for thumbnails design: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Europe_map_romania.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=index&utm_content=original - Theeuro at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Romania_general_map-en.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=index&utm_content=original - ArdadN, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons