Over here we have people akin to that in the ministry of environment and theu get to chanhe laws and stuff to suit them.
No care for preventing the encounters, they like it as it gives them reason to kill them. Couple of months back there was a male bear who got into town, so they went to hunt it down and in the end they said the bear was shot down but it was a female… as long as there is a dead bear, they don’t care