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In March, one such individual, Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein, an Austrian prince, claimed Arthur’s scalp, paying a reported 7,000 euros for the privilege. According to Agent Green, a Romanian NGO which campaigns to preserve the country’s natural environment, Prince Liechtenstein took part in a hunting trip that was ostensibly arranged to find and kill a female bear believed to be responsible for damage caused to farms in the village of Ojdula, in Covasna county in central Romania. Despite the ban on hunting bears, exceptions are occasionally granted for the sake of controlling the be...

Liechtenstein prince accused of shooting Romania’s largest bear Adam Alexander in Transylvania © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Agent Green/AP Environmental groups have accused a prince from Liechtenstein’s royal family of shooting and killing the largest bear in Romania, in contravention of a ban on the trophy hunting of large carnivores. The Romanian NGO Agent Green and the Austrian NGO VGT alleged in a statement that the bear, who was called Arthur, was shot in March in a protected area of the Carpathian Mountains by Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein. Acc...

Prince blamed for shooting protected bear © Agent Green Arthur was biggest bear in Romania and probably the whole of the European Union Environmental campaigners suspect a prince from Austria shot dead probably the biggest bear alive in the EU on a hunting expedition in Romania in March. They say Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein had been granted a permit to shoot a female bear that had caused damage to some farms. But it was not a female that was shot but Arthur, a 17-year-old brown bear. The prince has not yet responded to Austrian media, and the BBC's attempts to reach him have be...

Environmental groups say Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein shot bear, named Arthur, in a protected area

BBC News By Paul Kirby image copyrightAgent Green image captionArthur was the biggest bear in Romania and probably the whole of the European Union Environmental campaigners suspect a Liechtenstein prince shot dead probably the biggest bear alive in the EU on a hunting expedition in Romania in March. They say Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein had been granted a permit to shoot a female bear that had caused damage to some farms. But it was not a female that was shot but Arthur, a 17-year-old brown bear. The prince who lives in Austria has not yet responded, and the BBC's attempts to reach...