“Dangerous” bear shot dead in Italian Alps, got too close to hikers. The animal, two and a half years old and identified under the name “M90”, was killed by agents of the forestry services of Trentino.
He had followed hikers on January 28 over a distance of 500 meters and the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) immediately gave the order to “take” him. The bear reintroduction plan (“Life Ursus”) in the province, implemented between 1996 and 2004, only planned for 50 plantigrades.