From January to mid-July, Slovakian authorities and hunters alike killed more than three dozen bears, leading to uproar among ecologists and activists. The authorities shot 30 so-called “problematic” bears, and hunters were allowed to hunt down another 11, Milan Boroš, the general director of Slovakia’s State Nature Conservancy office, has announced. Last year, a series of attacks, some of them deadly, led to calls to reassess the protected status of bears in Slovakia and more widely across Central and Eastern Europe. Now, Slovakia’s far-right environment minister, Tomáš Taraba, wants to ensur…