Many children's first encounter with a brown bear is in the form of a teddy bear.

Young brown bears are good climbers, but as they grow up they lose this ability. This is why humans can escape from angry bears by climbing up a tree and waiting for the bear to lose interest. Brown bears are also outstanding swimmers and can easily cross wide rivers.

Brown bears spend most of their time eating vegetation, insects and their larva, honey, fish, rodents and other mammals.

Sadly, only about 6000 of these bears still exist in Europe - most of them live in forests in Northern Scandinavia and in the European part of Russia. They are the last remaining intact ancient forests of Europe and are under threat from logging.

These forests have also ensured the survival of numerous plant and animal species, including flying squirrels, the highly endangered eagle owl and indigenous people.

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