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Originally Posted by Ariete
The brown bears are concentrated in the Central-Eastern part of the country. Bears are very shy animals with an excellent sense of smell, so they will notice you before you notice them. Attacks by bears are very rare, the last time one killed a man was in 1998. You have absolutely nothing to fear in our woods.
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Yes, I know, so the few ones who died by bears attacks were mainly people walking around who suddenly hit bear burrows or something like that.
However, unfortunately here in the Iberian peninsula brown bears live in very isolated, few sparsely populated areas in the northern mountains, so it is really difficult to find them by default, therefore I have never noticed about people being killed by bear attacks.
Maybe it would be different in your country as it's mostly flat with so many lakes everywhere, so maybe bears can feel free themselves to move around, which would make easy for trekking enthusiast to find them.
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