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# BBC tracks down brown bears in Estonia (video)

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By  [Estonian World](https://estonianworld.com/author/estonianworld/)
  ·  August 25, 2014  · [Life](https://estonianworld.com/category/life/)
 · 1 minute of reading

### The swamps and forests of Estonia are still full of the sort of wildlife that has long since vanished from much of Western Europe including wolves, wild boars, lynxes and flying squirrels. But now travellers are starting to visit the country in the hope of seeing another larger animal, as BBC’s Damien McGuinness reports.

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