"The trucks have specially designed containers equipped with a camera, water supply (and) air conditioner. They look like cylinders so that there are no sharp surfaces on which the (bears) could hurt themselves," Jonozovic said.
He added: "Once the bear is in the truck we do not sedate it. It simply falls asleep like when you put a baby in your car and start driving."
Jonozovic said he had headed 74 similar operations to capture bears in the wild and the animals never suffered any harm.
"If we live-trap them, we use reliable traps imported from Canada or the (United States) with transmitters that alarm us when an animal is caught. We get to the spot in less than half an hour and then anaesthetize them, check them and decide whether they are suitable or not," Jonozovic said.
Tranquilizing guns with compressed carbon dioxide are used to put a bear to sleep, after which each bear is marked with an ear tag and given a special radio collar that will regularly transmit information on the animal's position and condition via satellite over the next two or three years.
"When the collar's battery is empty, it has a drop off mechanism so that the animal will not have to carry it all his life," Jonozovic said.
