Prince killed Romania's largest bear, investigate against him

Authorities in Romania have launched an investigation into charges of killing the largest bear in the country, Arthur, who was killed in March by a European prince.

Romania is home to Europe's largest population of brown bears, officially about 6,000, though some scientists oppose these figures. It officially banned their hunting in 2016.

Now it only gives bear hunting permits “problems” that are sold to trophy hunters.

Official first hunting documents by the Associated Press confirm that Prince Emmanuel von und caught Liechtenstein a four-day hunting permit in March in Romania's Covasna County and that on March 13th he killed a 17-year-old brown bear, which he allegedly paid 70,000 euros.

But according to Agent Green's NGO, the prince was given permission to kill a female bear that had caused several injuries on local farms.

“Arthur was 17 years old and was the largest bear observed in Romania, and perhaps the largest living in the European Union,” said the NGO in a statement, adding that” was surprising how the prince could have mistaken a female with her cubs coming to the village, with a large male living deep in forest “.

A senior official from Romania's Environment Ministry, Octavian Berceanu, told the AP that the investigation into the case began on 29 April and that poaching is one of the allegations on the issue.