Probe into bear killed by prince

Romanian police will investigate a possible poaching case involving an Austrian prince who is reported to have “wrongly” killed a massive male bear in a trophy hunt on a visit to the country’s Carpathian Mountains in March, authorities said Wednesday. Official hunting documents confirms that Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein was granted a fourday hunting permit in March in Romania’s Covasna County and that on March 13 he “harvested” a 17yearold brown bear, for which he allegedly paid the princely sum of $8,400.

Romania officially banned trophy hunting in 2016, but hunting permits for “problematic” bears — ones that damage things such as farm crops or domestic animals — can be issued to hunting associations but only as a last resort.