Incorrect information about bear population size or sheep killedīy bears tended to be underestimates and not, as expected, overestimates.

That the daily press has always been conflict-oriented and that the information provided about bears Nor that the focus of the articles changed towards more conflict-oriented issues.We found rather

We did not find that the number of negative articles in the daily press increased from 1991 to 1998, In the daily press were the most negative with articles in the weekly press somewhere in between. In the hunting magazine focused more on bear research, bear biology and bear conservation.Ĭonsequently, articles in the hunting magazine were the most positive about bears, while articles Unlike those in the other papers, articles Weekly press, but other topics were also of some relevance. Of problem bears, sheep depredation and the fear of bears.These topics were also important in the Its characteristics, the number of sentences on certain topics and what information was given aboutīears.The analysis revealed that the most important topics covered in the daily press were the killing To test this assumption.We checked the overall attitude prevailing in each article, its main message, Using a content analysis approach, we investigated a total of 195 articles, of which 127 were fromĭaily newspapers, 38 from weekly magazines and 38 from the monthly hunting magazine LOVEC, Negative articles about bears were appearing in the press and creating a negative image of the bear. Bear managersĪnd hunters alike had the impression that as a consequence of these problems, increasingly From 1995 to 1998 Slovenia experienced a sharp increase in the depredation ofĭomestic sheep and in 1996 an old man was badly mauled by a female bear with cubs.

Conflicts occur between human and brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Slovenia, as in most areas where

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