Greece

One-year-old orphaned bears, called Bradley and Cooper, were released into the wild on Saturday after being trained by wildlife experts in how to make it on their own. The 16-month-old yearlings were tagged and released by the environmental group Arcturos,...

After a bear mother and her cubs were seen strolling the streets of Kastoria in north-western Greece earlier this week, a herd of deer was spotted roaming the deserted streets of a village near Serres, northern Greece. The beautiful animals...

A mother bear and at least two cubs were spotted roaming the streets of Kastoria, in northern Greece on Tuesday evening as the town continues nearly deserted after the coronavirus restrictions were imposed on the country. The region of Kastoria...

Greek forestry officials and animal welfare specialists removed a bear and her two newborn cubs from an abandoned house where they had found refuge near Florina, in the north of the country. Residents of the mountainous village of Drosopigi alerted...

Spring is in the air and the waking of bears as they come out of their hibernation is a sign of the change of seasons at the Arcturos wildlife sanctuary in Nymfaio, northern Greece. As the snow starts to thaw,...

Hundreds of leftist demonstrators gathered less than a mile away from the main 'Macedonia is Greece' rally to protest what they describe as the nationalist outburst against FYROM. Demonstrators hoisted a banner reading 'Macedonia belongs to its bears'. The Greek Police...

  To clap eyes on one bear in Greece would be something to write home about, but motorists near the northern city of Kastoria were startled by a pair of young bear cubs on Thursday. According to eyewitnesses quoted by the...

The fifteen bears in the wildlife shelter of Arcturus in Nympheo, northern Greece, woke up from hibernation in the past few days as March brought spring and milder weather in the country's northern regions, the shelter announced on Thursday. The...

The bears in the Arcturus Sanctuary of Nymfaio, Florina, have started  hibernating because the very low temperatures and the snow alerted their biological clock. "The oldest bears first went to sleep followed by the younger ones who had come from the...

Two young wild bears took a stroll at Kastoria center after midnight on Monday, alarming the residents of the northern Greek city. Nikos Panagiotopoulos, member of brown bear protection group Arcturos and Environmental Protection Society of Kastoria, told AMNA news...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras asked for effective help from European partners on the refugee problem instead of flexible or optional aid, during his speech at the European Council in Brussels on Thursday. According to government sources, Tsipras said that "Greece...

Gold medal winner Katerina Stefanidi entered Maracana stadium first waving the Greek flag for the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics on Sunday night. Stefanidi was followed by all members of the Greek mission, the athletes who won a...

Despite spending a lifetime in captivity in Thessaloniki's zoo, the brown bears Sasha and Alexandra have managed to adapt beautifully to a life closer to their natural wild state, at the Arktouros Shelter for brown bears in Nymphaio, Florina,...

The awakening of bears heralds the arrival of spring at the 'Arcturos' bear sanctuary at Nymphaio, Greece. This year spring has arrived early on account of the mild weather over the winter, which meant that the bears took a...

  On Tuesday, animal rights activists found a female brown bear and her cub shot, in a wooded area in Kastoria near the Greek-Albanian border. Arcturos the northern Greece-based bear conservation group, was informed by police after the discovery of the...