What happened to them? Over-hunted, disease, other (non-human) predators, loss of habitat to cities? Just curious; bears are usually pretty resilient.
The one bear that wandered into Southern Germany last week (likely from Russia) is being stalked in order to kill it.
They are resilient—just "inconvenient".
'> The UK doesn't have bears anymore.
What happened to them? Over-hunted, disease, other (non-human) predators, loss of habitat to cities? Just curious; bears are usually pretty resilient.'
The only bear that has ever been native to the British Isles was the Brown Bear and it became extinct around 500 years before the birth of Christ, so there aren't any records of why.