That is a paltry amount of brown bears, though. A token amount, really, as if to say "yeah, we have some brown bears". Now, I've long been a proponent of introducing large terrestrial mammals into urban environments. Especially potentially dangerous ones. And Norway might be a good place to start with brown bears. Hello, Norway; you now have brown bears. Lots of them. They are in your garbage dumps and railway stations and parking lots and all the other places humans aren't in all of the time. They will make life more interesting when you just wanted to empty the office wastebasket or park the car before the hockey game or whatever you all do in Norway.

Other non-native species will be introduced in 2013 once we've assessed how the bears are doing.