The sight of three of his sheep lying dead on the ground was shocking for farmer Anastasios Kasparidis. The large paw prints in the soil left no doubt that they had been killed by a bear, a once-rare but now increasingly frequent visitor in parts of northwestern Greece.
“It was a bear, a very big one, and they come often now. I wasn’t the only one, it struck elsewhere too,” Kasparidis said, adding that another farmer had lost some chickens and pigs. He decided to move the rest of his small flock into a sheep pen near his house for protection.
