The M90 bear was shot down after the green light given by the Province of Trento.
On January 28, the plantigrade had followed a couple to Mezzana, in Val di Sole.
"In the afternoon, the decree signed this morning by the president of the Autonomous Province of Trento Maurizio Fugatti was executed, which provided for the collection of the M90 bear specimen through culling".
The decree provided that the specimen, "when identified as the M90 bear by observation of the radio collar and/or ear tags", was "immediately killed".
The operation was carried out, as required by the decree, by a team from the Trentino Forestry Corps, which went into action in a mountain area of the Lower Val di Sole.
The M90 bear had a radio collar from the night between 14 and 15 September 2023. Until 28 January, 12 approaches were reported "in a residential center or in the immediate vicinity of homes permanently in use" (case 13 of Pacobace) and 3 cases which fall within case 16 of Pacobace ("Bear intentionally follows people").
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